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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485606803321

Autore

Sørensen Lone

Titolo

Populist Communication : Ideology, Performance, Mediation / / by Lone Sorensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030657567

3030657566

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Disciplina

302.2

320.014

Soggetti

Communication

Culture

Mass media

Ethnology - Great Britain

Ethnology - America

Media and Communication

Global and International Culture

Media Sociology

British Culture

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Populist Communicative Process in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Disrupting Transitional and Established Democracy: The Stories and Contexts of UKIP and the Economic Freedom Fighters -- Chapter 3: A Communication Approach to Political Populism: Ideology, Performance and Representation -- Part II: Populism as Ideology: Populism on Ideology -- Chapter 4: Populist Ideology and Communicative Process -- Chapter 5: UKIP’s and the EFF’s Populist Ideology -- Chapter 6: The Ideological Process of Populism -- Part III: Populism as Performance: Populism on Performance -- Chapter 7: Political Performance and Populist Representation --



Chapter 8: UKIP’s and the EFF’s Disruptive Performances -- Chapter 9: Populist Disruptive Performance: The Forms and Functions of Populist Representation -- Part IV: Populism as Mediation: Populism on Mediation -- Chapter 10: The Hybrid Mediation of Populism -- Chapter 11: Hybrid Mediation: UKIP’s and the EFF’s Performative Assemblages -- Chapter 12: Mediated Populism as Process -- Chapter 13: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

How can we make sense of the current age of global political disruption when populism leaves norms overturned and the future form of democracy unpredictable? Political representatives are no longer elected for their experience and expertise but out of a desire for an ephemeral sense of authenticity, a direct connection to citizens, and the certainty of the truths they tell. But when populists project these ideas and claim to represent the citizenry, what is reality and what is strategic performance for the media presence and an invented ‘people’? This conceptually rich book explores the performative strategies of the populist politicians who disrupt the normative order with acts of ‘truth-telling’. It disentangles their complex use of media—from their appeal to news values through spectacular disruptions to sophisticated social media commentary—in repertoires of mediated performances. Based on vigorous empirical research in both established and transitional democracies, it develops a theoretical framework of populist communication in the new media environment.