Blogs used to influence discussions around the EU in 2010, but are now considered outdated as blog posts and comments can be found on most online media. While bloggers were once accredited to EU meetings and events, they are now seen as less important as anyone can share opinions on social media. However, new forms of citizen engagement have emerged, including large Facebook groups discussing the EU, internet memes, online petitions, wiki page edits tracking European elections, and hackathons that bring people together to collaborate on projects.

1. Citizen participation to European affairs
Lacomeuropéenne
21/02/2014

2. What is the state of EU blogging?

3. Blogs used to be influencial in Brussels:
it’s so 2010
Proof #2: institutions wondered
Proof #1: people made lists

4. Bloggers were accredited to EU
Council meetings in 2011

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

6. 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

7. Is blogging alive or dead?
More than
1000 blogs
referenced

8. New forms of citizen engagement

9. New form of citizen engagement:
facebook talking about
1,283,306 fans
49,931 "talking about"

10. New form of citizen engagement:
internet-meme

11. New form of citizen engagement:
online-petition

12. New form of citizen engagement:
wiki-curation
European Parliament election, 2014 Wikipedia page
614 revisions so far
93 edits last month

13. New form of citizen engagement:
crowd-checking

14. New form of citizen engagement:
hackathon