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List of contents
Foreword: Populism is better Understood in its Relation with the Media. Preface: From ‘Hate Speech’ to ‘Hate Tweets’. Populism and the Web: An Introduction to the Book. Chapter 1 Post-Democracy, Party Politics and Right-Wing Populist Communication. Chapter 2 Populist Political Communication in Mediatized Society. Chapter 3 Right-wing Populist Convergences and Spillovers in Hybrid Media Systems. Chapter 4 Media, Politics and Democracy: Populist and Post-populist Europe in the Mirror of the Italian Experience. Chapter 5 From Anti-Europeanism to Welfare Nationalism: Populist Strategies on the Web. Chapter 6 Anti-Migration and Islamophobia: Web Populism and Targeting the "Easiest Other". Chapter 7 Perceptions of Gender: the Discourse of the Far Right on the Web. Chapter 8 Sexuality Online – the Construction of Right-Wing Populists’ "Internal Others" in the Web. Chapter 9 Media Populism in Post-democracy: the Crossroads of Right and Left Political Parties. Chapter 10 Countering Populist Othering Online: Strategies of Anti-racist Movements.
About the author
Mojca Pajnik is Research Advisor at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
Birgit Sauer is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna and, since 2014, speaker of the Research Network Gender and Agency at the University of Vienna.
Summary
This book explores the role of the Web for right-wing populist political parties and movements across Europe.
