[ecrea] cfp - Special Issue of the Central European Journal of Communication - "Populism and the Media Across Europe"

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Central European Journal of Communication

"Populism and the Media Across Europe"

**Description**

The recent electoral success of populist actors across Europe has been 
accompanied by an increased interest in the varied facets of the 
phenomenon of “populism” and, more recently, its relationship with the 
media. While much attention has been paid to populist parties and 
political leaders, their link to the media was less in the focus. The 
success of populist parties has resulted in publications seeking to 
determine and to understand the characteristics of populist political 
actors and their views on the one hand, and how voters respond to them 
on the other. Nevertheless, analyzing the relationships between populist 
political actors, the media (journalists) and society (voters) is a key 
to explain the success of populist parties and populist discourse in 
general.

Adopting the perspective of political communication in populism studies 
makes it possible to focus not only on ideology, but also on how it is 
packaged into messages, and the role that different media play in 
disseminating them. In fact, there is a complex relationship between 
populist actors and the media. On the one hand, populist parties are 
said to be dependent on the media for communication and they heavily 
feed on public attention through various forms of publicity. On the 
other hand, populist actors are eager to contest the traditional media, 
considering them as the appanage of the establishment. However, their 
maneuvering space has been widened thanks to a more and more 
sophisticated use of social media channels. The proliferation of social 
media has provided new space for political communication, where populist 
actors exercise their voice and interact with citizens who are no longer 
just receivers of the populist messages, but also active participants in 
the communication process. Insofar as populist parties usually contest 
the narratives of established political actors, social media may provide 
them with a welcome opportunity to avoid journalistic framing and 
contextualization. But to what extent populist parties communicate 
through and past traditional media, and with what effect, is still 
under-researched.

**Scope**

For this special issue we invite submissions that explore relations 
between populist actors, media and citizens. Particularly, we seek 
papers addressing the following questions: What role does the 
traditional and online/social media play in spreading populist messages? 
How do journalists perceive and approach populist actors? How much 
attention does the media pay to populist political actors and messages? 
What strategies do populist actors use to gain media attention? What are 
the political and social consequences of mediatization of populist 
political communication? What are the effects of populist messages on 
their audiences, in particular public sentiment towards controversial 
issues, and the vote? The Call for Papers welcomes papers focusing on 
one or more of these aspects. Comparative approaches are highly welcome.

**Submission**

We ask scholars and researchers interested in this topic to submit 
original manuscripts no longer than 45,000 characters (notes and 
reference list included) by September 30, 2018. The Special Issue will 
be published in Spring 2019.

Full-length papers shall be submitted online: 
http://ptks.pl/cejc/submission-of-article following “The Central 
European Journal of Communication” Style and Manuscript Guidelines: 
http://ptks.pl/cejc/manuscript-guidelines

All submissions will go through the process of double blind review. For 
further information please contact: (agnieszka.stepinska /at/ amu.edu.pl)

**About CEJC**

Central European Journal of Communication is published twice a year (in 
Spring and Fall) on behalf of the Polish Communication Association. The 
Journal welcomes contributions examining the role of communication from 
all theoretical, empirical and critical perspectives and using all forms 
of inquiry, as well as shorter research notes and commentaries, together 
with scholarly reviews of books and other scientific publications. The 
Journal is indexed and abstracted in several scientific databases, such 
as Scopus, Web of Science, The Central and Eastern European Online 
Library, Index Copernicus International and the Central European Journal 
of Social Sciences and Humanities. Website: www.cejc.ptks.pl



Agnieszka Stępińska (editor)

Nikoleta Corbu (Guest editor)

Peter Maurer (Guest editor)
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