Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism

A Discourse Approach
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-48662-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Politics, Media and Political Communication

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach

is a cutting-edge study of the practices of news journalism against the background of surging authoritarian populism.

This book traces key challenges for news journalism when reporting on authoritarian populism or on topics (such as immigration and terrorism) that are typically leveraged by far-right actors and platforms as a way of attracting media attention and boosting their popularity with national electorates. It also offers in-depth analyses of how these challenges are responded to by news journalists in the actual, day-to-day practices of news production, as evidenced in the discourse of news. By placing qualitative, critical analysis of discourse at the heart of the systematic inquiry into authoritarian populism in the news media, this book applies a broad methodological framework for studying (a) political performances and their mediated representations, (b) the complex and, often contradictory, normalizing processes at work in the news media, and (c) the attendant challenges and critical tasks for contemporary news journalism. Based on detailed analyses of political and news discourse in various European contexts, and in the US, spanning a decade (2014–2024), this book makes a timely and relevant contribution – as liberal democracies could be facing a new turning point in the global rise of authoritarian populism.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media studies, political communication, political science, sociology, and discourse studies who are interested in authoritarian and far-right populism, related discourses of nationalism and xenophobia, populist communication, and the role of news media and journalism.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ekström, Mats

Patrona, Marianna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: News discourse as the object of study  Part 1: The far-right delegitimization of mainstream journalism  Chapter 2: The disruption of journalistic authority and institutionalized relationships in political interviews Chapter 3: The discourse of alternative news: Between factual reporting and political propaganda  Part 2: The performances and propagation of far-right populism in the news  Chapter 4: The styles of populist political performances Chapter 5: Reporting the unsayable: authoritarian provocations and their recontextualization in the news  Part 3: Normalization of far-right discourses in the news media  Chapter 6: Media populism and the construction of ‘the people’ in political news interviews Chapter 7: The normalization of far-right politics in routine news events and political interviews Chapter 8: The politics of fear in political performance and news coverage  Conclusion  Chapter 9: Inside the vortex of authoritarian populism: News discourse and the challenges for journalism

Über Autor(innen)

Mats Ekström is Professor in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Marianna Patrona is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hellenic Army Academy, Greece.