Authors: Gianpietro Mazzoleni (Editor), Julianne Stewart (Editor), Bruce Horsfield
ISBN-13: 9780275974923, ISBN-10: 0275974928
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: New Edition
GIANPIETRO MAZZOLENI is Professor of Sociology of Mass Communication and Political Communication at the University of Milan. In addition he is Chair of the EuroMedia Research Group and Vice-chair of the Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association and serves on the editorial boards of The European Journal of Communication and of Political Communication. He is the author of La Comunicazione Politica (1998) and editor of the Italian scholarly journal Communicazione Politica.
JULIANNE STEWART is Lecturer in Mass Communication at the University of Southern Queensland. She has written about television policy in the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea and on new communication technologies in rural Queensland.
BRUCE HORSFIELD is Associate Professor in Communication and Media Studies and Director of the Center for Communication Research and Development at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He has published widely on mass communication issues.
Provides eight case studies of media responses to right-wing radical groups and how these groups exploit the media.
Illustrations | ||
Series Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Foreword: Broadening and Deepening Comparative Research | ||
1 | The Media and the Growth of Neo-Populism in Contemporary Democracies | 1 |
2 | Striking a Responsive Chord: Mass Media and Right-Wing Populism in Austria | 21 |
3 | The Media and Neo-Populism in France | 45 |
4 | The Lega Nord and the Italian Media System | 71 |
5 | The Bharatiya Janata Party, Ayodhya, and the Rise of Populist Politics in India | 95 |
6 | One Nation and the Australian Media | 121 |
7 | More Bad News: News Values and the Uneasy Relationship between the Reform Party and the Media in Canada | 149 |
8 | Ross Perot's Outsider Challenge: New and Old Media in American Presidential Campaigns | 175 |
9 | Media Populism: Neo-Populism in Latin America | 197 |
10 | Conclusion: Power to the Media Managers | 217 |
Index | 239 | |
About the Editors and Contributors | 251 |