Digital Communication and Populism in Times of Covid-19
Digital Communication and Populism in Times of Covid-19: Cases, Strategies, Examples
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031337158 | 342 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031337158 | 342 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
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.