As a research method and an approach, critical discourse analysis has been employed to a myriad of topics and concerns, including the analysis of discourses about the European Union, "Europeism", and "Europeanization", as well as crucial socio-political and economic issues in their interconnection with those dimensions of practice and politics. In media and communication studies, for instance, the "mediatization" of the political debate about these practices and the institutions that they engender promises to be a vast field of research. By selecting which topics are covered, which voices are heard, or how social and political issues/actors/dynamics are represented, mass media impacts how political conversations and processes unfold. But this is only one dimension to be examined, and where critical discourse analysis can uncover significant questions of power and politics in different social contexts. This conference aims to explore some of the possible themes emerging from critical discourse analysis of Europeanization or the European Union with three distinct, international researchers and professors working in these fields.

Speakers

Sonia Boulos: Associate Professor of Law and International Relations at the University of Antonio de Nebrija (UANE), Spain
Kennet Lynggaard: Associated Professor in European Union studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark
Xavier Giró: Director of the Conflicts News Coverage Observatory, retired Professor of Political Journalism at the Faculty of Communication of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

The conference is organized within the scope of the research project "MEDIATIZED EU - Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions", funded by the European Commission (H2020) (2021-2024).