[Commlist] IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion

International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Global
Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion

If we were to use one word to describe the recent trend in global politics,
populism would no doubt be a strong candidate. From Donald Trump to Jair
Bolsanaro and from Narendra Modi to Giorgia Meloni, right-wing populist
movements have upended assumptions about contemporary politics and have
seeded concerns about the future of liberal democracies across the globe.
This Special Section on Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion,
guest-edited by Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, and Corrina Laughlin,
advances scholarly understanding of the present dynamics of global politics
in the hybrid media environment. While emergent populist movements
increasingly use symbols and tropes in their political communication,
religion and "the religious" tend to be ignored or acknowledged only at the
most superficial level in the present research in media and communication
studies.
The articles in this Special Section attempt to fill in this gap in
scholarship and address populism, media, and religion in a variety of media,
political, and cultural contexts ranging from Finland, Norway, Poland,
Italy, Turkey to India, Brazil, and the United States. Expert authors from
media and communication studies, political science, and religious studies
address political and religious populism with a special focus on nationalist
and right-wing movements. The authors apply conceptual frameworks such as
"religious populism," gender, nationalism, fundamentalism,
"civilizationism," Islamophobia, and victimhood to study religion and
populism in diverse media contexts ranging from newspapers to Twitter. In
the afterword, John L. Jackson, Jr. reminds media and communication scholars
to keep race in mind as they analyze religious and populist phenomena in the
present political moment.    We invite you to read these articles that 
published in the International
Journal of Communication on April 4, 2023. Please log into ijoc.org to read
the papers of interest. We look forward to your feedback! 
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 Religious Populism? Rethinking Concepts and Consequences in a Hybrid Media
Age—Introduction
Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, Corrina Laughlin

The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital
Far-Right Populism Giulia Evolvi

The Role of Religion in Construction of the People and the Others: A Study
of Populist Discourse in the Polish Media
Agnieszka Stępińska
"Brazil Above Everything. God Above Everyone." Political-Religious
Fundamentalist Expressions in Digital Media in Times of Ultra-Right
Nationalism in Brazil
Magali do Nascimento Cunha

Islam as the Folk Devil: Hashtag Publics and the Fabrication of
Civilizationism in a Post-Terror Populist Moment
Johanna Sumiala, Anu A. Harju, Emilia Palonen

Triggers and Tropes: The Affective Manufacturing of Online Islamophobia 
Mona Abdel-Fadil

Mediating Muslim Victimhood: An Analysis of Religion and Populism in
International Communication Bilge Yesil

Populism, Religion, and the Media in India Pradip Ninan Thomas

The Ghosts in the Machine of Contemporary Scholarship on Media and
Communication—Afterword
John L. Jackson, Jr.
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Larry Gross, Editor Kady Bell-Garcia, Managing Editor
Chi Zhang, Managing Editor, Special Sections
Johanna Sumiala, Stewart M. Hoover, and Corrina Laughlin, Guest Editors

Please note that according to the latest Google Scholar statistics, IJoC
ranks 9th among all Humanities journals and 9th among all Communications
journals in the world — demonstrating the viability of open access
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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