Fox Populism

Peck, Reece

doi:10.1017/9781108634410

Cited by 91 publications

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“…Those who are predisposed to see racial outgroups in monolithic terms may have an affinity for rhetoric that further reinforces this perception (Westerwick et al, 2017). In the United States, former President Donald Trump's nearwholesale takeover of the Republican Party, along with his embrace by Fox News (the country's most watched news station; Peck, 2019), has lent right-wing populist ideology unprecedented prominence in political discourse. Right-wing populism tends to promote simplistic binaries organized around racial, ethnic, religious, and national axes (Sengul, 2019;Waisbord, 2018aWaisbord, , 2018b.…”

Section: Who Adopts Minority Collusion Beliefs?mentioning

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When White Americans see “non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics

Knowles

Tropp

Mogami

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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White Americans may find diversity threatening in part because they construe non-White Americans as a coherent social and political force. We argue that this perception manifests in a belief that minority groups collude against White people and that White people should act as a political bloc to defend ingroup interests. In a 3-year longitudinal study, the belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics increased significantly among a nationally representative sample of 2,635 White Americans. Compared to White Democrats, White Republicans more strongly endorsed minority collusion beliefs and White identity politics, and increased more in these beliefs over time. Essentialist perceptions of the White ingroup were associated with longitudinal increases in minority collusion beliefs, but not in support for White identity politics. Endorsement of minority collusion and support for White identity politics both predicted lower support for Black Lives Matter and greater support for the Alt-Right movement. Implications for race relations, stigma-based solidarity, and the psychology of partisanship and ideology are discussed.

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Section: Who Adopts Minority Collusion Beliefs?mentioning

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When White Americans see “non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics

Knowles

Tropp

Mogami

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…Second, antimedia statements have been analyzed alongside other forms of antielite rhetoric as a specimen of populist discourse (e.g., Engesser et al 2017). Third, scholars have explored empirically the populist use of partisan media and social media against mainstream media (e.g., Peck 2019).…”

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The Strategic Bias: How Journalists Respond to Antimedia Populism

Panievsky

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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As populist campaigns against the media become increasingly common around the world, it is ever more urgent to explore how journalists adopt and respond to them. Which strategies have journalists developed to maintain the public's trust, and what may be the implications for democracy? These questions are addressed using a thematic analysis of forty-five semistructured interviews with leading Israeli journalists who have been publicly targeted by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The article suggests that while most interviewees asserted that adherence to objective reporting was the best response to antimedia populism, many of them have in fact applied a “strategic bias” to their reporting, intentionally leaning to the Right in an attempt to refute the accusations of media bias to the Left. This strategy was shaped by interviewees' perceived helplessness versus Israel's Prime Minister and his extensive use of social media, a phenomenon called here “the influence of presumed media impotence.” Finally, this article points at the potential ramifications of strategic bias for journalism and democracy. Drawing on Hallin's Spheres theory, it claims that the strategic bias might advance Right-wing populism at present, while also narrowing the sphere of legitimate controversy—thus further restricting press freedom—in the future.

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“…As some researchers have argued, this could explain people's unwillingness to identify as belonging to the working class (Skeggs, 1997), negatively impacting the working class as a political force. The failure to describe the socioeconomic conditions of the working class by the mainstream media is also evident in social analyses of the emergence of resentment-driven right-wing populist movements and their ability to mobilise support from the working class (Peck, 2019;Winlow et al, 2017).…”

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Introduction: Class in/and the media: On the importance of class in media and communication studies

2021

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Social class is one of the most enduring concepts in the social sciences and is associated with many of the key themes and topics across multiple disciplines. Thus, there are many uses to which the concept of social class in media and communication can be put. The ambition of this special issue is to offer a glimpse into the heterogeneity of its uses in the field. While attuned differently in relation to the various approaches and definitions of class, the eight contributions to this special issue collectively focus on the relationship between media and class. One of the ambitions of this special issue is to report on some of the current Nordic scholarship in this growing field of research and to highlight the particularities of the relationship between class, inequality and media in this region. While the special issue also includes contributions from other regions, the main focus is on social class in the Nordic countries.This introductory article begins with a discussion on the concept of social class and its analytical relevance in the contemporary social landscape. We detail the relationship between media and class as manifested in a growing body of research, followed by a brief presentation of the individual contributions to this special issue. Finally, we identify the road ahead and potential research areas for scholars of media and communication concerned about class and social inequality in the twenty-first century. Class: A key concept in an increasingly unequal worldDespite its long history of playing a key role in the social sciences, the concept of social class is a contested term. First, because of the definitional uncertainty that stems from a range of academic traditions applying the concept in different ways to different objects of study. Second, due to changes in the sphere of production, social structure, and in the lifeworlds of citizens in many parts of the world, which has made it more difficult to ascertain the empirical reality of social class.

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Fox Populism

Cited by 91 publications

References 140 publications

When White Americans see “non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics

When White Americans see “non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics

The Strategic Bias: How Journalists Respond to Antimedia Populism

Introduction: Class in/and the media: On the importance of class in media and communication studies

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