[Commlist] New book: Free to Hate

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of 
Illinois Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Free to Hate***

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

*Martin Marinos***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087615/free-to-hate/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252087615/free-to-hate/>_**__*

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“A thorough and well-researched history of postsocialist media 
transformation in Bulgaria that has a great deal of relevance for 
understanding the relationship between right-wing populism and 
commercialization in Europe and worldwide.”--Anikó Imre, author of /TV 
Socialism/

“An original interpretation of the role of the media in the rise of 
populism, drawing on the political economy tradition of media and 
communication research. High-quality interviews and on-site fieldwork 
add originality and significance to the book.”--Sabina Mihelj, coauthor 
of /Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television///

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.



*University of Illinois Press**| Geopolitics of Information | November 
2023 | 304pp | 9780252087615 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.


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