[Commlist] IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Digital Memory and Populism

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on
Digital Memory and Populism

In a world of flux, the past can become a guiding beacon; yet, in which
direction do populists move and how do counter-voices mobilize memory online
to respond to often divisive interpretations of the past?
Guest-edited by Manuel Menke and Berber Hagedoorn, this Special Section on
Digital Memory and Populism presents work by international academic
researchers who shed light on the uses of the past by populists, their
supporters, and their opponents in online discourses. Readers will gain a
better understanding of digital memory and populism in the realm of party
politics and beyond, since populist communication and narratives have
entered civil society and people's everyday lives in many democracies across
the world.
In seven articles, the authors contribute unique insights into how digital
memory is shared, represented, constructed, and exploited to promote or
tackle populism in Germany, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States.
Together, the articles in this Special Section exhibit digital memory as an
important analytical lens to understand populism and its uses of the past
from a media and communication perspective. The presented studies feature
different conceptual and empirical approaches demonstrating how contested
and therefore powerful memory is in populism, shaping digital discourses on
identity, belonging, and political ideology. Some articles, however, also
emphasize the potential of digital memory to organize and mobilize bottom-up
voices countering populist narratives by the means of digital media,
networked communication, and activism. Thereby, the research articles in
this Section contribute new pieces to the puzzle of populism's success,
while also highlighting possible counter-narratives.
   We invite you to read these articles that published in the International
Journal of Communication on March 2, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read
the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback!
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Digital Memory and Populism—Introduction
Manuel Menke, Berber Hagedoorn

Populists' Use of Nostalgia: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach
Lena Frischlich, Lena Clever, Tim Wulf, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides


Commemorative Populism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Strategic (Ab)use of
Memory in Anti-Corona Protest Communication on Telegram Christian 
Schwarzenegger, Anna Wagner
Radical-Right Populist Media Discourse in Social Media and Counter
Strategies: Case Study of #ConfederateHeritageMonth 2021 Twitter Campaign
Krzysztof Wasilewski

Deploying Private Memory in the Virtual Sphere: Feminist Activism Against
Gender-Based Violence in Mexico Emanuela Buscemi

Remembering Gezi: The Digital Memory Practices on Twitter During the
Anniversaries in the Face of Populist Challenges
Duygu Karataş, Mine Gencel Bek

Remembering and Forgetting Fukushima: Where Citizen Science Meets Populism
in Japan Yasuhito Abe

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Larry Gross, Editor Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Manuel Menke and Berber Hagedoorn, Guest Editors
 Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC
ranks 9th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications
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scholarly publication at the highest level.

Annenberg Press
(annpress /at/ usc.edu)
International Journal of Communication
USC Annenberg Press
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
University of Southern California
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International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
USC Annenberg Press
University of Southern California
http://ijoc.org/
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