Extreme parties and populism: an analysis of Facebook and Twitter across six countries
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Abstract
Parties are adapting to the new digital environment in many ways; however, the precise relations between populist communication and social media are still hardly considered. This study compares populist communication strategies on Twitter and Facebook employed by a broad spectrum of left-wing, center, and right-wing political actors in six Western democracies. We conduct a semi-automated content analysis of politicians’ social media statements (N = 1400) and find that populism manifests itself in a fragmented form and is mostly used by political actors at the extremes of the political spectrum (both right-wing and left-wing), by opposition parties, and on Facebook.
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1347-1364 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Information Communication and Society |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 2 Sept 2017 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- content analysis, online communication, opposition party, politics, Populist communication, social media