Free to Hate

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

Martin Marinos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04550-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Acknowledgments List 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

Conclusion Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Geopolitics of Information
Zusatzinfo	30 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-252-04550-5 / 0252045505
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04550-9 / 9780252045509
Zustand	Neuware