Populist Communication: Ideology, Performance, Mediation

ISBN-13: 9783030657581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Lone Sorensen

Opis

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? 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Lone Sorensen is Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.

Blurb

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.