TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital Memory and Populism
AU - Menke, Manuel
AU - Hagedoorn, Berber
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - For the Special Section “Digital Memory and Populism,” we invited contributions by academics addressing the uses of digital memory by populists, their supporters, and their opponents online. With the possibility to bypass traditional media and reach networked audiences, populist actors are increasingly active in digital publics to negotiate the role of the past with their supporters while being challenged by their opponents. In this process, personal and collective memories become a contested field in digital discourses on identity, belonging, and political ideology and are used to mobilize for or against populist agendas. The contributions in this Special Section shed light on how digital memory is shared, represented, constructed, and exploited to promote or tackle populism in different contexts and countries.
AB - For the Special Section “Digital Memory and Populism,” we invited contributions by academics addressing the uses of digital memory by populists, their supporters, and their opponents online. With the possibility to bypass traditional media and reach networked audiences, populist actors are increasingly active in digital publics to negotiate the role of the past with their supporters while being challenged by their opponents. In this process, personal and collective memories become a contested field in digital discourses on identity, belonging, and political ideology and are used to mobilize for or against populist agendas. The contributions in this Special Section shed light on how digital memory is shared, represented, constructed, and exploited to promote or tackle populism in different contexts and countries.
KW - digital memory
KW - heartland
KW - history
KW - nostalgia
KW - political communication
KW - populism
KW - social media discourse
UR - https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21056
M3 - Article
SN - 1932-8036
VL - 17
SP - 2101
EP - 2112
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
ER -