Overview
- Provides an overview of the various dimensions of digital communication during the pandemic
- Presents theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as practical perspectives
- Includes case studies from multiple European countries
Part of the book series: Studies in Digital Politics and Governance (SDPG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Digital Methodologies
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Reflections on Social Changes and Future Directions and Challenges
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Keywords
- Populism
- Covid-19
- Pandemic
- Elections
- Digitalization
- Polarization
- Digital disinformation
- Social media
- Governmental communication strategy
- Anti-vaccination movements
- Radical right
- Feminist framing
- Digital state
- Political communicaton research
- Political legitimacy
- Tea Party Patriots
- eGovernment
- e-Citizens
- Blockchain democracy
About this book
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic significantly accelerated the technological revolution presenting many social, economic, and political challenges, as it pushed the world into cyberspace to ensure social distancing. At the same time, many populist protests expressed in the digital public sphere massively gained importance during the lockdowns. As a result, one of the most significant consequences of using electronic tools is not only greater e-participation of citizens, but - especially evident through elections during a pandemic - even greater transfer of political communication and election campaigns into the space of new media. The book broadly analyses various contexts of digitalization of communication processes and populist politics from both theoretical and empirical perspectives in various case studies on the digitalization of information, communication, or participation processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in selected European countries and beyond.
This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political communication, political science, electoral studies, digital politics, and democracy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of digital communication and populism during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Magdalena Musiał-Karg is a full professor of political science. She works at the Department of Political Systems, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She is the Vice-Dean for Research and Scientific Cooperation at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and a former Vice-Dean for Research and Development (2016-2020). She is also the President of the Polish Political Science Association, Vice-Chair of the Research Committee on Political Communication (RC22) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), member of the Political Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2020-2023), and the President of the Center for European Research and Education.
She was a holder of a PhD scholarship under the "Europa Fellows II" Programme financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and under the Osteuropa Programme financed by KAAD. In2014, she was awarded with a 3-year stipend for young distinguished scientists funded by the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education.
Óscar G. Luengo is a full professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Granada, Spain. He is the Coordinator of the Summer Schools in Methodology of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and former Vice-dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. He was a distinguished visiting scholar at Florida International University, as well as a research fellow at the University of Machala (Ecuador), Amsterdam School of Communication Research (The Netherlands), University of Mainz (Germany), European University Institute (Italy) and University Tecnológica de Monterrey (México). Prof. Luengo was a visiting professor at many foreign
universities: the University of California, Berkeley (US), Ritsumeikan University (Japan), Florida International University (USA), University of Saint Louis (USA), University of Anadolu (Turkey), University of Plzen (Czech Republic), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). His main research areas focus on political communication, campaigns, and electoral analysis. Further, he is researching new media impact on civic participation and democracy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Communication and Populism in Times of Covid-19
Book Subtitle: Cases, Strategies, Examples
Editors: Magdalena Musiał-Karg, Óscar G. Luengo
Series Title: Studies in Digital Politics and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33716-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33715-4Published: 14 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33718-5Due: 15 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33716-1Published: 13 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-3926
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 207
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Communication, Comparative Politics, Electoral Politics, Governance and Government, European Politics, Public Administration