Free to Hate

How Media Liberalization Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria

AvMartin Marinos

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Engelska, 2023

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Linking neoliberalism with the Right’s global rise

Bulgaria’s media-driven pivot to right-wing populism parallels political developments taking place around the world. Martin Marinos applies a critical political economy approach to place Bulgarian right-wing populism within the structural transformation of the country’s media institutions. As Marinos shows, media concentration under Western giants like Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and News Corporation have led to a neoliberal turn of commercialization, concentration, and tabloidization across media. The Right have used the anticommunism and racism bred by this environment to not only undermine traditional media but position their own outlets to boost new political entities like the nationalist party Ataka. Marinos’s ethnographic observations and interviews with local journalists, politicians, and media experts add on-the-ground detail to his account. He also examines several related issues, including the performative appeal of populist media and the money behind it.

A timely and innovative analysis, Free to Hate reveals where structural changes in media intersect with right-wing populism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-21
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252055126
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
Serie:Geopolitics of Information

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Martin Marinos is an assistant professor in the Department of Film Production and Media Studies at Penn State University.

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"A thorough and well-researched history of postsocialist media transformation in Bulgaria that has a great deal of relevance for understanding the relationship between right-wing populism and commercialization in Europe and worldwide."--Anikó Imre, author of TV Socialism"An original interpretation of the role of the media in the rise of populism, drawing on the political economy tradition of media and communication research. High-quality interviews and on-site fieldwork add originality and significance to the book."--Sabina Mihelj, coauthor of Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Social Justice Journalism and Cultural Enlightenment: Socialist Humanist Media After Stalin Media and the Post-1989 Anti-Communist Hegemony "The Language of the People": The Tabloidization and Monopolization of the Post-Socialist Press "Commercial Television with a Public Role": Nationalism, Mediatized Social Responsibility and the Porous Border Between Political and Media Populism Media Concentration and Right-Wing Populism's Love/Hate Relationship with the Media Labor, Money, and the "Populist" in Right-Wing Populist Media ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index