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Extreme parties and populism: an analysis of Facebook and Twitter across six countries
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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- Authors
- Ernst, N., Engesser, S., Büchel, F., Blassnig, S., & Esser, F.
- Venue
- Information, Communication & Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-05-29
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1347-1364
- ISSN
- 1369-118X (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4462
- OpenAlex
- W2618089236
- Cited by
- 420
- References
- 54
- FWCI
- 157.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Funders
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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