Digital populism and disinformation in «post-truth» times

Autor: Hélder Prior
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), Vol 34, Iss 4 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2386-7876
DOI: 10.15581/003.34.4.49-64
Popis: This article presents an attempt to understand the relationship between digital populism and post-truth politics. At first, we will try to understand the fuzzy semantic category of populism. Next, we examine the growth of right-wing populism in Europe and its main characteristics. Finally, we analyze how the current model of networked communication, particularly direct communication, and the anatomy of digital social networks, become a fertile field for the dissemination of populist rhetoric, articulating the concept with the modern mechanisms of disinformation and falsification of reality.
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