It took 11 people 4 years to finish the 333 pages of this book, but we got there in the end: “Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections”, now available as hardcover or ebook: https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.101
The book addresses an under-researched area in populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as our case study, we analyse how supporters across Europe construct identities and voting motivations.
>>The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments.
If you’d like to know more, you can read the introduction, including an overview of the chapters, here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLb3i3b7Jp3kWjCI_J2m-nC3ioi7W6ZDFKdMVJtdE6g/edit?usp=sharing
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>>It's been a great group of authors to work with:
Authors: @VeronikaKoller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, @miglmarl, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Maria Stopfner