- Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
- Political communication, Public Relations, Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union, EU institutions' external communication, Media Relations, Journalism, and 6 morePublic Affairs, Political Communication (Communication), Mediatization (Communication Studies), Government Communication, Council of the European Union, and European Parliamentedit
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ABSTRACT According to normative theories on the public sphere and democracy, inclusive public debates should take place in deliberative democracies, such as Denmark’s, before political decisions are made. These debates, which in Denmark... more
ABSTRACT According to normative theories on the public sphere and democracy, inclusive public debates should take place in deliberative democracies, such as Denmark’s, before political decisions are made. These debates, which in Denmark currently mostly take place via the mass media, are intended to ensure that all viewpoints and arguments are considered in the decision making process, so that the public can gain influence and ownership of the decisions. To determine the extent to which the media facilitates public debates that are inclusive, we examined whose viewpoints were presented in the large Danish newspapers’ coverage of a recent political event: the 2011 political festival in Bornholm. We found that the coverage was heavily dominated by politicians’ viewpoints, and that average citizen viewpoints were very infrequently included.
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According to normative theories on the public sphere and democracy, inclusive public debates should take place in deliberative democracies, such as Denmark’s, before political decisions are made. These debates, which in Denmark currently... more
According to normative theories on the public sphere and democracy, inclusive public debates should take place in deliberative democracies, such as Denmark’s, before political decisions are made. These debates, which in Denmark currently mostly take place via the mass media, are intended to ensure that all viewpoints and arguments are considered in the decision making process, so that the public can gain influence and ownership of the decisions. To determine the extent to which the media facilitates public debates that are inclusive, we examined whose viewpoints were presented in the large Danish newspapers’ coverage of a recent political event: the 2011 political festival in Bornholm. We found that the coverage was heavily dominated by politicians’ viewpoints, and that average citizen viewpoints were very infrequently included.
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Of the many optical bioassays available, sensing by fluorescence anisotropy have great advantages as it provides a sensitive, instrumentally simple, ratiometric method of detection. However, it is hampered by a severe limitation as the... more
Of the many optical bioassays available, sensing by fluorescence anisotropy have great advantages as it provides a sensitive, instrumentally simple, ratiometric method of detection. However, it is hampered by a severe limitation as the emission lifetime of the label needs to be comparable to the correlation lifetime (tumbling time) of the biomolecule which is labelled. For proteins of moderate size this is in the order of 20-200 ns, which due to practical issues currently limits the choice of labels to the dansyl-type dyes and certain aromatics dyes. These have the significant drawback of UV/blue absorption and emission as well as an often significant solvent sensitivity. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of a new fluorescent label for high molecular weight biomolecules assay based on the azadioxatriangulenium motif. The NHS ester of the long fluorescence lifetime, red emitting fluorophore: azadioxatriangulenium (ADOTA-NHS) was conjugated to anti-rabbit Immunoglobul...
The Council of the European Union is often described as the least transparent of the three big EU institutions although steps have been taken to improve the transparency of its activities during the last couple of decades. This article... more
The Council of the European Union is often described as the least transparent of the three big EU institutions although steps have been taken to improve the transparency of its activities during the last couple of decades. This article focuses on the Council’s press officers who provide journalists with information and thereby act as day-to-day facilitators of transparency of the Council’s activities. Although these communicators see themselves as contributing substantially to the transparency of the Council’s work and thereby as enabling the media to provide EU citizens with information about one of the most powerful political forums in Europe, transparency in the Council has its limits. This study explores institutional factors which hinder Council press officers from being as transparent as journalists would like them to be. In-depth, semi-structured interviews with Council press officers, participant observation and document analysis provided the data for the study.