A Game of Masks: The Communicative Performance of the Portuguese Populist Far-Right

Novais, Rui Alexandre

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16673-0_6

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“…The study attempts to connect the communicative strategy and the constitutive element of populist ideology to the dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication in digital platforms. In line with previous authors [22,29,[35][36][37][38][39][40], this work combines two of the main approaches in the literature on populism: the thin-centered ideology definition with the communicative style. Indeed, one core ideational dimension of populism is anti-elitism that derives from the Manichean ideological view of politics and society that opposes 'the pure' or 'good people' to the' bad' or 'corrupt elites' [24,41].…”

Section: Methdology and Corpusmentioning

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Divide et Impera? Populist Digital Anti-media Criticisms

Novais

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities

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This work aimed to determine how a core ideational dimension of populism and a component of its communicative framework -anti-elitism -was strategically conveyed through tactical attacks on the media via digital platforms. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of the understudied attacks against the press through digital means of a right-wing populist president from the Global South during his first year in office, it unpacks the strategic use of digital anti-media criticisms of the enemy construction and the polarization of the media. It confirms Twitter as the preferred platform for Jair Bolsonaro's anti-media attacks right from the outset of the term. The digital attacks portfolio ranged from discrediting media sectors for lying, displaying bias, and being the source of fake news that contradicted its foundational role of accurately informing the public to unduly assuming as an opposition political actor. Besides undermining journalism's epistemic legitimacy and raising questions about its social role Bolsonaro further committed himself to the enemy construction of the press and only indirectly polarized the news media between friends and foes.

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Section: Methdology and Corpusmentioning

confidence: 76%

Divide et Impera? Populist Digital Anti-media Criticisms

Novais

2023

Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities

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Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed

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2024

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This article explores the relationship between blame and populism by analyzing the defensive communication strategies employed by right-wing populist leaders in their attacks on the media. The study focuses on Jair Bolsonaro and concludes that he used various strategies to avoid taking responsibility for adverse outcomes while blaming the media as one of his favorite targets. The explorative study draws on qualitative discourse analysis of the presidential narratives to shed light on the paradoxical nature of these defensive strategies. Bolsonaro’s political style involved preemptively neutralizing the media’s critical performance and reacting negatively to any critical coverage that contradicted his version of events and undermined his authority.

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A Game of Masks: The Communicative Performance of the Portuguese Populist Far-Right

Cited by 2 publications

References 46 publications

Divide et Impera? Populist Digital Anti-media Criticisms

Divide et Impera? Populist Digital Anti-media Criticisms

Attack in the Form of Defense? Populist Anti-media Tactics to Avoid Being Blamed

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