Populism and the Web

Mojca Pajnik is senior research associate at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana and senior lecturer at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Fields of her research include media and communication, political theory, racism/populism and feminism. Birgit Sauer is professor of Political Science at the department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She was director of the graduate school “Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalisation” (GIK). She has co-coordinated a research project in the 6th FP. She was and is partner and/or director in several EU funded and nationally funded research projects. Her research fields include gender and governance, gender, religion and democracy, right-wing populism and racism as well as politics of affect.

Foreword: Populism is better Understood in its Relation with the Media. Preface: From ‘Hate Speech’ to ‘Hate Tweets’. Populism and the Web: An Introduction to the Book. Chapter 1 Post-Democracy, Party Politics and Right-Wing Populist Communication. Chapter 2 Populist Political Communication in Mediatized Society. Chapter 3 Right-wing Populist Convergences and Spillovers in Hybrid Media Systems. Chapter 4 Media, Politics and Democracy: Populist and Post-populist Europe in the Mirror of the Italian Experience. Chapter 5 From Anti-Europeanism to Welfare Nationalism: Populist Strategies on the Web. Chapter 6 Anti-Migration and Islamophobia: Web Populism and Targeting the "Easiest Other". Chapter 7 Perceptions of Gender: the Discourse of the Far Right on the Web. Chapter 8 Sexuality Online – the Construction of Right-Wing Populists’ "Internal Others" in the Web. Chapter 9 Media Populism in Post-democracy: the Crossroads of Right and Left Political Parties. Chapter 10 Countering Populist Othering Online: Strategies of Anti-racist Movements.