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This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. While doing so, it discusses views, opinions, and research results regarding the conditions, experiences, constraints, benefits, and challenges related to the topic - not only using theoretical and methodological approaches but also practical perspectives.
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic significantly accelerated the technological revolution presenting many social, economic, and political challenges, as it pushed the world into cyberspace to ensure social distancing. At the same time, many populist protests expressed in the digital public sphere massively gained importance during the lockdowns. As a result, one of the most significant consequences of using electronic tools is not only greater e-participation of citizens, but - especially evident through elections during a pandemic - even greater transfer of political communication and election campaigns into the space of new media. The book broadly analyses various contexts of digitalization of communication processes and populist politics from both theoretical and empirical perspectives in various case studies on the digitalization of information, communication, or participation processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in selected European countries and beyond.
This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political communication, political science, electoral studies, digital politics, and democracy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of digital communication and populism during the Covid-19 pandemic.
List of contents
Chapter 1. The Digital Present and the Future of Political Communication; Introduction and Prospects.- Part 1. Digital Methodologies.- Chapter 2. New Methodological Perspectives in Political Communication Research: Machine Learning and Algorithms.- Chapter 3. Feminist Framing in Times of Pandemic: an Analysis of the Spanish Case.- Chapter 4. Ten Years of Immigration: Ten Years of Polarisation? Natural Language Processing Techniques for the Study of the Andalusian Case.- Part 2. Case Studies.- Chapter 5. Social Media as an Information and Voter Activity Tool on the Example of the 2020 Presidential Election in Poland.- Chapter 6. Digital Disinformation During the 2020 Parliamentary Elections in Lithuania.- Chapter 7. Mexico's Governmental Communication Strategy "Las Vespertinas" in Times of COVID-19: Crises and Strategies of a Populist Government.- Chapter 8. Polish Deputies Support to the Anti-vaccination Movement in Social Media. The Case of Confederation Leaders.- Chapter 9. Memory and Remembrance in Digital Populist Discourse in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study of @TPPatriots (Tea Party Patriots) Activity on Twitter.- Chapter 10. The Anti-feminist Agenda of the Spanish Populist Radical Right in Times of COVID-19 Crisis: a Comparative Approach.- Chapter 11. Rise of E-citizens in Croatia - a Case Study of the Croatian Main eGovernment Platform During the Time of the Pandemic.- Part 3. Reflections on Social Changes and Future Directions and Challenges.- Chapter 12. Distributed, Decentralized Registries and Digital State. Are We Moving Toward a Blockchain Democracy?.- Chapter 13. Development of Central Bank Digital Currency as a Payment Method for the SARS-COV-2 Virus Pandemic.- Chapter 14. Populism, Political Legitimacy & Digital Communication: An Alternative Conversation.
