EU Referendum Analysis 2016:
Media, Voters and the Campaign

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Featuring 80 contributions from leading UK academics, this publication captures the immediate thoughts 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.

• ‘I want my country back’: Emotion and Englishness at the Brexit ballotbox – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• ‘I want my country back’: Emotion and Englishness at the Brexit ballotbox – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• ‘Tuck your shirt in!’ It’s going to be a bumpy ride: Boris Johnson’s swerve to Brexit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• ‘Tuck your shirt in!’ It’s going to be a bumpy ride: Boris Johnson’s swerve to Brexit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A (very) brief period of Habermasian bliss – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A (very) brief period of Habermasian bliss – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• A victory of the nation state: the EU Referendum in the Southern European press – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Automatic polling using Computational Linguistics: more reliable than traditional polling? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Automatic polling using Computational Linguistics: more reliable than traditional polling? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Bending over backwards: the BBC and the Brexit campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Bitcoin Billionaire Review
• Bitcoin Circuit Review
• Bitcoin Code Review
• Bitcoin Era Review
• Bitcoin Evolution Review
• Bitcoin Profit Review
• Bitcoin Revolution Review
• Bitcoin Trader Review
• Bonfires and Brexterity: what’s next for women? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Boris, Brexit or bust – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Break-point for Brexit? How UKIP’s image of ‘hate’ set race discourse reeling back decades – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Break-point for Brexit? How UKIP’s image of ‘hate’ set race discourse reeling back decades – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Brexit ‘mansplained’: news coverage of the EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Brexit: inequality, the media and the democratic deficit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Brexit: the destruction of a collective good – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Britishness and Brexit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Bums gone to Iceland: England, Brexit and Euro 2016 – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Calming the storm: fighting falsehoods, fig leaves and fairy tales – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Cameron and the Europe question: Could it have ended any other way? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Cameron and the Europe question: Could it have ended any other way? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Campaign frames in the Brexit referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Celebrity politicians and populist media narratives: the case of Boris Johnson – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Celebrity politicians and populist media narratives: the case of Boris Johnson – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Comedy clubs offered a better quality of debate than the political stage – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Comedy clubs offered a better quality of debate than the political stage – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Deliberation, distortion and dystopia: the news media and the referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Destroying and building democracy, a German view – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Did the EU Referendum boost youth engagement with politics? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Divided Britain? We were already divided… – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• E-newsletters, persuasion and the referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• EEC/EU campaigning in long-term perspective – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• From Super-Market to Orwellian Super-State: the origins and growth of newspaper scepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Healthier ever after? The NHS as a campaign issue – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How our mainstream media failed democracy – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• How the Brexit outcome has changed our understanding of referendums – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Immediate Edge Review
• Impact of social media on the outcome of the EU referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Interaction and ‘the floor’ in the televised debates of the EU referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Interaction and ‘the floor’ in the televised debates of the EU referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Introduction: the Brexit campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• It’s the ‘primary definers’, stupid! – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Leave versus Remain: the digital battle – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Less a soap opera, more a fantasy drama? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Less a soap opera, more a fantasy drama? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mind the gap: the language of prejudice and the press omissions that led a people to the precipice – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mixed feelings: how citizens expressed their attitudes towards the EU – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Mixed feelings: how citizens expressed their attitudes towards the EU – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Myth versus fact: are we living in a post-factual democracy? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Neither tackling lies nor making the case: the Remain side – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Neither tackling lies nor making the case: the Remain side – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Newspapers’ editorial opinions during the referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Notes for editors: what the campaign press releases tell us about Vote Leave and Britain – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Notes for editors: what the campaign press releases tell us about Vote Leave and Britain – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Political memes and polemical discourse: the rise of #usepens – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Political memes and polemical discourse: the rise of #usepens – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Public personalities in the EU debate: elites vs. the majority and Bullingdon resurgent – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Referendum campaign broadcasts on television: A generational clash? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Referendum campaign broadcasts on television: A generational clash? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Referendum night goings on – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Regulated equivocation: the referendum on radio – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Remembrance of Referendums Past: Scotland in the campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Rhetoric of excess – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Scrutinising statistical claims and constructing balance: television news coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Section 1: Context
• Section 2: Politics
• Section 3: News
• Section 4: Journalism
• Section 5: Campaign and Political Communication
• Section 6: Parties
• Section 7: Social Media
• Section 8: Voters
• Talking past each other: the Twitter campaigns – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The ‘Referendum Bubble’: what can we learn from EU campaign polling? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The age of Nigel: Farage, the media, and Brexit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The Durham miners’ role in Labour’s culture wars – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The emotional politics of the EU Referendum: Bregrexit and beyond – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The EU referendum and the Country of Origin principle (COO) – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The great miscalculation: David Cameron’s renegotiation and the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The immigration debate: Labour versus Leave in the battle to win public trust – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The immigration debate: Labour versus Leave in the battle to win public trust – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The Liberal Democrats: the EU Referendum’s invisible party – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The narrow agenda: how the news media covered the Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The News Spy Review
• The press and the Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum and Britain’s broken immigration politics – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The referendum campaign and the public’s constitutional understanding – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The results are in and the UK will #Brexit: What did social media tell us about the UK’s EU referendum? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The results are in and the UK will #Brexit: What did social media tell us about the UK’s EU referendum? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The rhetoric of the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The rhetoric of the EU Referendum campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The toxicity of discourse: reflections on UK political culture following the EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The toxicity of discourse: reflections on UK political culture following the EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The triumph and tribulations of Conservative Euroscepticism – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• The view from across the pond: Brexit on American media – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• UK newspapers and the EU Referendum: Brexit or Bremain? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Understanding the role of the mass media in the EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• United by what divides us: 38 Degrees and the EU Referendum – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Wales, immigration, news media and Brexit – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• What explains the failure of ‘Project Fear’? – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Why facts did matter in the campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Why facts did matter in the campaign – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Workers rights in the EU and out: social class and the trade unions’ contribution to the debate – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Workers rights in the EU and out: social class and the trade unions’ contribution to the debate – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story – EU Referendum Analysis 2016
• Young people in a changing Europe: British youth and Brexit 2016 – EU Referendum Analysis 2016

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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. Bitcoin Code Review (Steven Barnett)
28. Divided Britain? We were already divided… (Des Freedman)
29. Bitcoin Revolution Review (Charlie Beckett)
30. Bitcoin Evolution Review (Oliver Daddow)
31. X marks the spot but the Ys have it: Referendum coverage as a boys’ own story (Karen Ross)
32. Bitcoin Profit Review (Paul Rowinski)
33. Bitcoin Trader Review (Anna Wambach)
34. Bitcoin Billionaire Review (Ivor Gaber)
35. Bitcoin Circuit Review (Roger Domeneghetti)
36. It’s the ‘primary definers’, stupid! (Chris Roberts)
37. Bitcoin Era Review (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. Immediate Edge Review (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. The News Spy Review (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)