Lo studio sottopone a Content analysis (in particolare ad Analisi statistica areale del contenuto) un campione dei quotidiani elettronici più autorevoli editi nei paesi di rilevanza UE, scritti in 22 lingue diverse, al fine di indurre a differenziazioni di ordine culturale tra i diversi pubblici, fondandosi su metodologie che provengono dalla teoria matematica della comunicazione. Il risultato principale della ricerca, anche suffragato da una strutturazione fievole posta in evidenza dalle analisi multivariate, indica che non esistono nuclei culturali esclusivi, e che pertanto le tessere che compongono il mosaico europeo hanno una buona probabilità di collegarsi ben presto in un tutto unico, pur conservando ciascuna gran parte della propria individualità linguistica e culturale.
(*) The purposes of the study, some results of which were presented during the XLI scientific session of the Società Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica (Turin, May 2004), are to contribute to the cultural knowledge of the 25 EU countries and of the waiting three. In this perspective, a statistical content analysis, done on a sample representing the electronic newspapers of the 28 nations, written in 22 different languages, gives several important indications about cultural similarities and dissimilarities of the audiences and, at last, of the correspondent peoples. A method of aggregation based on fuzzy sets, using the mutual expected information as dissimilarity measure, generates three open groups. The first is composed by the public of the newspapers whose thematic structure is near The Times' (UK), the second is led by Le Monde (F) and the third by Die Welt (D). Finally, the study (especially thanks to a persistent high factorial complexity), indicates that the massmediological tastes of the 28 audiences are sufficiently analogous to generate a founded hope that the different peoples may quickly amalgamate in order to reach a common European condition; each country conserving an important part of its own linguistic and cultural individuality.