[ecrea] UK - EU Referendum Analysis 2016: Media, Voters and the Campaign

We are very pleased to announce the publication of "EU Referendum 
Analysis 2016: Media, Voters and the Campaign”, edited by Daniel 
Jackson, Einar Thorsen and Dominic Wring.

Featuring 80 contributions from 100 leading UK academics, this 
publication captures the immediate thoughts, reflections and early 
research insights on the 2016 Referendum on UK Membership of the 
European Union from the cutting edge of media and politics research.

Published 10 days after the election, these contributions are short and 
accessible. Authors provide authoritative analysis of the campaign, 
including research findings or new theoretical insights; to bring 
readers original ways of understanding the referendum and its 
consequences. Contributions also bring a rich range of disciplinary 
influences, from political science to fan studies, journalism studies to 
advertising.

We hope this makes for a vibrant and engaging read.

The publication is available as a downloadable PDF, as a website and as 
a printed report.

We are hosting an invitation only launch event at the House of Commons 
(18 July) and an open event on Brexit in Leicester (IAMCR 
pre-conference, 27 July).

You can register for the conference here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-brexit-campaign-2016-uk-referendum-on-membership-of-european-union-tickets-24771805136

EU Referendum Analysis website:
http://www.electionanalysis.uk

Direct PDF download:
http://bit.ly/EUReferendumAnalysis2016_Jackson-Thorsen-and-Wring_v1

Thanks to all of our contributors and production staff who helped make 
the quick turnaround possible. We hope it makes for a vibrant and 
engaging read!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: the Brexit campaign (Daniel Jackson, Einar Thorsen and 
Dominic Wring)

Section 1: Context
1. EEC/EU campaigning in long-term perspective (Jay Blumler)
2. From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of 
newspaper scepticism (Dominic Wring)
3. Understanding the role of the mass media in the EU Referendum (Mike 
Berry)
4. Brexit: the destruction of a collective good (Chris Gifford)
5. How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums 
(John Fitzgibbon)
6. The referendum and Britain’s broken immigration politics (Andrew Geddes)
7. The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU 
Referendum campaign (Andrew Glencross)

Section 2: Politics
8. Rhetoric of excess (James Martin)
9. Myth versus fact: are we living in a post-factual democracy?(Susan 
Banducci and Dan Stevens)
10. Destroying and building democracy, a German view(Catherine Goetze)
11. Remembrance of Referendums Past: Scotland in the campaign (Michael 
Higgins)
12. Public personalities in the EU debate: Elites vs. the majority and 
Bullingdon resurgent(Nathan Farrell)
13. Healthier ever after? The NHS as a campaign issue (Tamara Hervey)
14. Wales, immigration, news media and Brexit (Kerry Moore)
15. The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional 
understanding (David Yuratich)
16. The EU referendum and the Country of Origin principle (COO) (Irini 
Katsirea)
17. Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales 
(Alan Renwick, Matthew Flinders and Will Jennings)

Section 3: News
18. The press and the Referendum campaign (David Levy, Billur Aslan and 
Diego Bironzo)
19. The narrow agenda: how the news media covered the Referendum (David 
Deacon, John Downey, Emily Harmer, James Stanyer and Dominic Wring)
20. Newspapers’ editorial opinions during the referendum campaign (Julie 
Firmstone)
21. Brexit ‘mansplained’: news coverage of the EU Referendum (Emily Harmer)
22. Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television 
news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum (Stephen Cushion and Justin Lewis)
23. Regulated equivocation: the referendum on radio (Guy Starkey)
24. Referendum night goings on (Stephen Coleman)
25. The view from across the pond: Brexit on American media (Filippo 
Trevisan)
26. A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern 
European press (Iñaki Garcia-Blanco)

Section 4: Journalism
27. How our mainstream media failed democracy (Steven Barnett)
28. Divided Britain? We were already divided… (Des Freedman)
29. Deliberation, distortion and dystopia: the news media and the 
referendum (Charlie Beckett)
30. UK newspapers and the EU Referendum: Brexit or Bremain?(Oliver Daddow)
31. X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ 
own story (Karen Ross)
32. Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that 
led a people to the precipice (Paul Rowinski)
33. ‘They don’t understand us’: UK journalists’ challenges of reporting 
the EU (Anna Wambach)
34. Bending over backwards: the BBC and the Brexit campaign (Ivor Gaber)
35. Bums gone to Iceland: England, Brexit and Euro 2016 (Roger Domeneghetti)
36. It’s the ‘primary definers’, stupid! (Chris Roberts)
37. Brexit: inequality, the media and the democratic deficit (Natalie 
Fenton)

Section 5: Campaign and Political Communication
38. Why facts did matter in the campaign (Christoph Meyer)
39. Less a soap opera, more a fantasy drama? (John Street)
40. The rhetoric of the EU Referendum campaign (Andrew S. Crines)
41. A (very) brief period of Habermasian bliss (Mick Temple)
42. The toxicity of discourse: reflections on UK political culture 
following the EU Referendum (Katy Parry)
43. Britishness and Brexit (Frances Smith)
44. Neither tackling lies nor making the case: the Remain side (Kirsty 
Hughes)
45. Break-point for Brexit? How UKIP’s image of ‘hate’ set race 
discourse reeling back decades (James Morrison)
46. Referendum campaign broadcasts on television: A generational clash? 
(Vincent Campbell)
47. Interaction and ‘the floor’ in the televised debates of the EU 
referendum campaign(Sylvia Shaw)
48. Comedy clubs offered a better quality of debate than the political 
stage (Sophie Quirk)
49. ‘Project Art’ versus ‘Project Fear’: the art establishment against 
Brexit (Matt Hills)
50. Notes for editors: what the campaign press releases tell us about 
Vote Leave and Britain (Paula Keaveney)

Section 6: Parties
51. The triumph and tribulations of Conservative Euroscepticism(Philip 
Lynch)
52. Celebrity politicians and populist media narratives: the case of 
Boris Johnson (Mark Wheeler)
53. ‘Tuck your shirt in!’ It’s going to be a bumpy ride: Boris Johnson’s 
swerve to Brexit (Candida Yates)
54. ‘Conservative party future?’ Party disunity, the media and the EU 
Referendum (Anthony Ridge-Newman)
55. Cameron and the Europe question: Could it have ended any other way? 
(Tristan Martin)
56. The Liberal Democrats: the EU Referendum’s invisible party (Andrew 
Russell)
57. The Durham miners’ role in Labour’s culture wars (Eunice Goes)
58. The immigration debate: Labour versus Leave in the battle to win 
public trust (Thom Brooks)
59. The age of Nigel: Farage, the media, and Brexit (Neil Ewen)

Section 7: Social Media
60. Leave versus Remain: the digital battle (Andrew Mullen)
61. The results are in and the UK will #Brexit: What did social media 
tell us about the UK’s EU referendum? (Clare Llewellyn and Laura Cram)
62. Automatic polling using Computational Linguistics: more reliable 
than traditional polling? (Massimo Poesio, John Bartle, Jacqueline 
Bechet, Fabio Celli, Carmelo Ferrante, Marc Poch, Hugo Zaragoza and 
Giuseppe Riccardi)
63. Impact of social media on the outcome of the EU referendum 
(Vyacheslav Polonski)
64. Talking past each other: the Twitter campaigns (Simon Usherwood and 
Katharine Wright)
65. Political memes and polemical discourse: the rise of #usepens (Mary 
Mitchell)
66. E-newsletters, persuasion and the referendum (Nigel Jackson)
67. United by what divides us: 38 Degrees and the EU Referendum (James 
Dennis)
68. Boris, Brexit or bust (Alec Charles)

Section 8: Voters
69. What explains the failure of ‘Project Fear’? (Jane Green)
70. Workers rights in the EU and out: social class and the trade unions’ 
contribution to the debate (Jen Birks)
71. ‘I want my country back’: Emotion and Englishness at the Brexit 
ballotbox (Russell Foster)
72. Mixed feelings: how citizens expressed their attitudes towards the 
EU (Darren G. Lilleker)
73. ‘We want our country back’ – stop sneering, start listening (Michael 
Skey)
74. Young people in a changing Europe: British youth and Brexit 2016 
(Matt Henn and Darren Sharpe)
75. Bonfires and Brexterity: what’s next for women? (Charlotte O’Brien)
76. The ‘Referendum Bubble’: what can we learn from EU campaign polling? 
(Louise Thompson)
77. Did the EU Referendum boost youth engagement with politics? (Stuart 
Fox and Sioned Pearce)
78. Campaign frames in the Brexit referendum (Sofia Vasilopoulou)
79. The emotional politics of the EU Referendum: Bregrexit and beyond 
(Karin Wahl-Jorgensen)

All the best,
Daniel, Einar and Dominic


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