Contemporary politics, communication, and the impact on democracy / Dolors Palau-Sampio, Guillermo López García, and Laura Iannelli, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iannelli, Laura, editor.

García, Guillermo López, editor.

Palau-Sampio, Dolors, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics.

Democracy.

World politics.

Physical Description:

29 PDFs (420 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book uses a multidisciplinary and multi-national approach to analyze the relationships between communication, politics, and democracy regarding the challenges and threats faced by contemporary democracies while disinformation, polarization and populism have a main role in the present hybrid communicative scenario"

Contents:

Section 1. Chapter 1. Proposing a three-dimensional normative model for political communication ; Chapter 2. Achieving a representative democracy in Europe: the politicization of the European public sphere ; Chapter 3. Contemporary populist representation and its implications for democracy: a theoretical assessment from a realist point of view

Section 2. Chapter 4. The dynamics of polarisation in Australian social media: the case of immigration discourse ; Chapter 5. Polarization and platformization of news in Italian journalism: the coverage of migrant worker regularization ; Chapter 6. What drives selective exposure to political information in Spain?: comparing political interest and ideology ; Chapter 7. Semi-private spheres as safe spaces for young social media users' political conversation: virtual haven or digital bubbles? ; Chapter 8. The mirage of truth: the instrumentalization of fact-checking to spread an ideological discourse

Section 3. Chapter 9. Populism, its prevalence, and its negative influence on democratic institutions ; Chapter 10. Europe and euroscepticism on Twitter during the 2019 European Parliament elections: an analysis of the Spanish candidates ; Chapter 11. Intermedia agenda-setting effect of Latino television in the 2020 U.S. presidential election: a comparative study of Telemundo and Univision ; Chapter 12. Will live streaming platforms and influencers consolidate or disrupt democracy?: a case study of Taiwan's 2020 presidential election ; Chapter 13. Placing Portuguese right-wing populism into context: analogies with France, Italy, and Spain

Section 4. Chapter 14. Emotional and rational frames contained in institutional speeches: six European leaders managing the COVID-19 crisis ; Chapter 15. Discourse and disinformation on COVID-19 vaccination in Spain and Brazil: a case study on the Twitter debate ; Chapter 16. Citizens, polarization, and the pandemic in the Italian hybrid news media system ; Chapter 17. Citizens' political discourses on climate change and vaccines: a comparative study between Spain and Poland.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-7998-8059-1

OCLC:

1286883752