POPULIST COMMUNICATION IN A TIME OF GLOBAL PANDEMIC: UNDERSTANDING “POST-TRUTH POPULISM” DURING COVID-19

• Authors: Ryoko Drávucz Renáta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Populism and the post-truth: two concepts often used simultaneously or interchangeably to explain current developments in contemporary politics, yet the demarcation line between them remains blurry. Building on definitions of populism that describe it as a style of political communication, ‘post-truth populism’ can be regarded as a specific type of populist communication which shares the characteristics of post-truth politics. How the two phenomena intertwine, and how the aesthetic transformation of the public sphere and the rise of social media had a role in their appearance will be discussed. The theoretical framework is illustrated by two cases during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

EN

POPULISM; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; COVID-19

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 244 – 265

Contributors

author

Ryoko Drávucz Renáta

• Doctoral School of International Relations and Political Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9207-6704

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.2.9