Savaş Çoban is an independent researcher and continues his work with articles on media and politics. His published books include Media and Left (Brill, 2014) and Media, Ideology and Hegemony (Brill, 2018). Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu is a retired Professor from Galatasaray University, Faculty of Communication, where she had worked since December 2004. In addition to being a member of organizations such as ILAD (Association for Communication Research), UNESCO, and the American Institute of Biography, İnceoğlu participated in the Council of Europe's media literacy meetings as a European Commission Expert and was invited as a guest lecturer to Columbia University (1994) and Salzburg Seminars (2003) and most recently to the Center for Media Studies at the University of New Delhi in 2014. She has published many books and is the co-editor of Journalism 'a Peacekeeping Agent' at the Time of Conflict (Brill, 2018).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionSavaş Çoban and Yasemin Giritli İnceoğluPart 1Populism1 Populism, Fascism and MediaSavaş Çoban and Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu2 Recovering Radical Populism for Social ChangeLee Artz3 Labelling with Populism in a Country without a LeftJan Křeček4 Toxic Masculinity and Banal PopulismMichael Higgins and Angela Smith5 “Supreme Is the People” – Populist Elements of Bolsonaro’s RhetoricJuliana Gagliardi, Liziane Guazina and Afonso de Albuquerque6 The Night Has Fallen in ArgentinaPablo Andrés Castagno7 Communicating Conspiracy FantasiesThomas Klikauer8 In Praise of CivilityNick StevensonPart 2Populism and Hate Speech9 Journalism in Crisis: Hate, Populism and Turbulent TechAidan White10 Banalization as Mediation: Youtuber Franchino and His Hateful VernacularityMarco Briziarelli and Elisabetta Risi11 From Fake News to Hate Speech and Vice Versa: The Logic of Polarization in Information SocietyGeorge Pleios and Michalis Tastsoglou12 Yellow Perils: Pandemic Imaginaries and the Contest for Global PowerGraham Murdock13 Analysis of Digital Alternative News Commentators’ Motives and Their Verbal Aggressiveness during covid-19 Pandemic in Slovakia (January–December 2021)Hedviga Tkácová14 Enemies, Heroes, and Hate Propaganda: America’s War in UkraineGerald Sussman15 Trump’s Tirades or: Destroying the GolemArthur Asa BergerConclusionSavaş Çoban and Yasemin Giritli İnceoğluIndex