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Media populism in Macedonia: Right-wing populist style in the coverage of the “migrant crisis”
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The communicative style used to exclude immigrants from the idea of “the people” is the scope through which right-wing media populism is measured in a case study of Macedonia, a post-communist country on the Balkan migrant route. Quantitative content analysis of articles from four Macedonian right-wing partisan news outlets N = 409, demonstrates a clear change in tone in coverage of migration, marked by an increase of populism as the “migrant crisis” intensified. Logistic regression confirms that incivility, as a proxy for the intensity of partisan bias, is a significant predictor of populism, and opinion pieces have a significantly stronger populist tendency than news reports. The findings show that online news outlets, however, are not more populist than traditional print media.
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- Authors
- Bosilkov, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Milan (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Bosilkov, Ivo
- ORCID
- Bosilkov, Ivo
- Venue
- Central European Journal of Communication
- Publisher
- Polish Communication Association
- Published
- 2019-07-30
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 206-223
- ISSN
- 1899-5101 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3011642027
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 2.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Central European Journal of Communication (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Keywords
- media populism, right-wing populism, migration crisis, incivility, opinion articles, migrant exclusion
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