Martin Marinos

Free to Hate

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Geopolitics of Information
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780252087615
• ISBN-10: 0252087615
• Artikelnr.: 68462644

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Social Justice Journalism and Cultural Enlightenment: Socialist
Humanist Media After Stalin
2. Media and the Post-1989 Anti-Communist Hegemony
3. “The Language of the People”: The Tabloidization and Monopolization
of the Post-Socialist Press
4. “Commercial Television with a Public Role”: Nationalism, Mediatized
Social Responsibility and the Porous Border Between Political and
Media Populism
5. Media Concentration and Right-Wing Populism’s Love/Hate Relationship
with the Media
6. Labor, Money, and the “Populist” in Right-Wing Populist Media
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index