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Socially mediated populism: the communicative strategies of political leaders on Facebook

Populism has been defined in many different ways, mostly in regard to political ideology and political dynamics, but only in recent years in relation to communication variables. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the identification of a socially mediated type of populist communication profoundly affected by the specific nature of social media. It presents and discusses empirical evidence on Italy’s populist and non-populist leaders that use Facebook regularly, and highlights the extent of the overflow of populist communication patterns and ideological features into mainstream political communication. Populist ideology fragments emerged in Italian leaders’ Facebook posts, thus leading to two main conclusions: first, populism appears to be ‘endemic’ in the Italian online facebooksphere; second, political actors—even non-populist ones—do not disdain the adoption of typical populist rhetoric

Media e Populismo

UIDB/05021/2020 UIDP/05021/2020A invasão da Rússia à Ucrânia, no dia 24 de fevereiro de 2022, deu uma nova vi-sibilidade à temática deste número, pois tornam ainda mais urgentes, de forma dra-mática e terrível, as questões que envolvem a luta pela liberdade e a democracia. O crescimento das autocracias e do populismo no mundo, como vem assinalando há mais de dez anos a ONU, Freedom House, Repórteres sem Fronteiras e outras institui-ções internacionais, têm vindo a colocar em causa a paz, a equidade e a prosperidade mundial. Os constrangimentos crescentes colocados à globalização, num movimento protagonizado por grandes potências mundiais com vista à desglobalização, fazem crescer o receio da implosão do mundo em que vivemos. O cerceamento à liberda-de de expressão, o fechamento da internet, o policiamento e polarização das redes, associados à desinformação de todo tipo e discursos de ódio fazem prever a conso-lidação de um reordenamento do ecossistema social e político pautado por grande violência simbólica e física. Estudar estes fenómenos tornou-se nossa obrigação.publishersversionpublishe

Why are “others” so polarized? Perceived political polarization and media use in 10 countries.

This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, conceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying on representative surveys in Canada, Colombia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Norway, United Kingdom and United States, we test whether perceived polarization is related to the use of television news, newspaper, radio news, and online news media. Data show that online news consumption is systematically and consistently related to perceived polarization, but not to attitude polarization, understood as individual attitude extremity. In contrast, the relationships between traditional media use and perceived and attitude polarization is mostly country dependent. An explanation of these findings based on exemplification is proposed and tested in an experimental design

"The Italian media coverage of the EU in 1999: A distracted framing of political reality"

In this paper the Italian section of the international research on media coverage of the EU in the 1999 European elections is presented. The monitoring of Italian media coverage in 1999 has showed a strong national political and media space, and a very weak European one: the Italian media coverage and political debate had a "domestic" quality, and some important national events darkened the European issues. Nevertheless, the Kosovo war and the eventual peace process was an important issue for it was a good occasion for reporters and commentators to connect some European issues with it, thus creating a link between the Kosovo crisis and other European problems, such as the European Parliament elections

Chapter 12. Which Governance for the European audiovisual landscape? A Multidimensional Perspective

Note portant sur l’auteur 12.1. The new European audiovisual scene The increasing complexity of the contemporary media landscape, undergoing digitalization and convergence, has made it urgent to rethink the media change and to look at it beyond its simple technological dimension.The “paradigm of the digital revolution,” employed to emphasize the transformative aspects of digital technology, has given way to the “paradigm of convergence,” more apt to represent the multidimensionality of the me..