Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel - Authoritarian and Populist Influences in the New Media

The media is often viewed as a primary gauge that reflects the changing political landscape as societies transition from authoritarian regimes to democracies. Chronicling the process through media analysis provides deeper insights into the relationship between technology, the state, and social forces that are reflected in the publics communications. This volume explores the challenges and political conditions that have shaped the media in several representative studies of the media in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. The contributors analyze the legacy of the past on the development of the media in post-authoritarian regimes and explore the relationships between media, communication industries (public relations), and politics. The use of new communications technologies to manipulate the media and the public introduce a novel use of social media by populists as well as authoritarian regimes and their proxies.

This book presents a comparative and global investigation of the role of the media in the realignment from established policies to an emerging milieu of new channels of communication that challenge traditional media practices.

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel is Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Studies Initiative at Auburn Montgomery, USA.

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Authoritarian and Populist Influences in the New Media

Edited by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

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Names: Krishna-Hensel, Sai Felicia, editor.

Title: Authoritarian and populist influences in the new media / edited by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, [2018] |

Series: Global interdisciplinary studies series; 1184 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017002802| ISBN 9781472488541 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315162744 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Mass mediaPolitical aspectsCase studies. | PopulismCase studies. | AuthoritarianismCase studies.

Classification: LCC P95.8 .A95 2018 | DDC 302.23dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002802

ISBN: 978-1-4724-8854-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-16274-4 (ebk)

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MUTLU BINARK AND GNSELI BAYRAKTUTAN

AHMAD M. KAMAL

ANTONIO MOMOC

TUBA ELDEM

AYESHA MULLA

THOMAS FRISSEN AND LEEN DHAENENS

NATALIYA PISKUNOVA

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Gnseli Bayraktutan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, GiresunUniversity, Turkey

Mutlu Binark, Professor, Faculty of Communication, Haceteppe University Turkey

Leen dHaenens, Professor, Institute for Media Studies, Leuven, Belgium

Thomas Frissen, Researcher, Institute for Media Studies, Leuven, Belgium

Ahmad M. Kamal, Lecturer, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Director, Interdisciplinary Global Studies Initiative, Auburn Montgomery, USA

Antonio Momoc, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest, Hungary

Ayesha Mulla, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago, USA

Nataliya Piskunova, Senior Lecturer, Moscow State University, Russia

Tuba Eldem, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Gedik University, Turkey

The media has often been seen as a primary gauge reflecting the changing political landscape as societies have transitioned from authoritarian regimes to democracies. Media-state relationships have evolved in many societies as the political landscape has changed from identifiably authoritarian structures to more open democratic constitutions. In some instances the democratic objectives remain aspirational rather than an accomplished fact. Chronicling the process through media analysis provides deeper insights into the relationship between technology, the state, and social forces that are reflected in the publics communications. This volume explores the challenges and political conditions that have shaped the media in several representative studies of the media in the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. The contributors analyze the legacy of the past on the development of the media in post-authoritarian regimes and explore the relationships between media, communication industries (public relations), and politics. The use of new communications technologies to manipulate the media and the public introduces a novel use of social media by populists as well as authoritarian regimes and their proxies. The contributors note differences and similarities in media markets under authoritarian regimes. Internet trolling and hate speech emerge as a new social phenomenon. The chapters of this volume represent a comparative and global investigation of the role of the media in the realignment from established policies to an emerging milieu of new channels of communication that challenge traditional media practices.