Citizen participation in European affairs

Citizen participation to European affairs

Lacomeuropéenne21/02/2014

What is the state of EU blogging?

Blogs used to be influencial in Brussels: it’s so 2010

Proof #1: people made lists

Proof #2: institutions wondered

Bloggers were accredited to EU Council meetings in 2011

A blogger event was organized at the Justius Lipius and webstreamed in 2012

How about blogging today?

Blogs are dead because blogposts and comments are on every online media

Bloggers are trivialized since anybody is active on social media

Is blogging alive or dead?

More than 1000 blogs referenced

New forms of citizen engagement

New form of citizen engagement: facebook talking about

1,283,306 fans49,931 "talking about"

New form of citizen engagement: internet-meme

New form of citizen engagement: online-petition

New form of citizen engagement: wiki-curation

European Parliament election, 2014 Wikipedia page

614 revisions so far93 edits last month

New form of citizen engagement: crowd-checking

New form of citizen engagement: hackathon