Overview
- Focuses on the comparison between different EU countries during the 2019 EP elections campaign
- Introduces a new perspective in conceptualizing populism in comparative analysis
- Special attention is paid to national/transnational and European/Eurosceptic tendencies in campaign rhetoric
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Democratic Corporatist Countries
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Polarised Pluralist Countries
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Liberal Countries
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About this book
This volume approaches the relationship between European public sphere and political communication in the framework of establishing populism and social media. The empirical analysis focuses on the comparison between different EU countries during the 2019 EP elections campaign. The data for the analysis was collected real time from Twitter in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Ireland and the UK. during a month period and are analyzed with both computerized quantitative and manual qualitative methods.
The book introduces a new perspective in conceptualizing populism in comparative analysis, in which populism is understood rather as an antagonist logic of political identity formation than pre-defined political ideologies, movements or party cleavages. We approach implications of populist construction of ‘us’ and ‘not us’ in national contexts of 2019 EP election campaigns to find out the relationality between different political actors and parties. A special attention is paid to national/transnational and European/Eurosceptic tendencies in campaign rhetoric. By using a unique idea of ‘hashtag publics’ we approach the common Twitter discussions around the elections and ask: what particular topics and themes did different political actors distribute over Twitter during the 2019 EP elections, how were various topics and actors linked to each other, and how were campaign agendas and actors linked to populism?
Chapter-No.1,Chapter-No.4 and Chapter-No. 8 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Juha Herkman is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Emilia Palonen works as a Senior University Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Helsinki.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Populism, Twitter and the European Public Sphere
Book Subtitle: Social Media Communication in the EP Elections 2019
Editors: Juha Herkman, Emilia Palonen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41737-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41736-8Published: 31 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41739-9Due: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41737-5Published: 30 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 253
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Communication, Social Media