Mediatization, Right-Wing Populism and Political Campaigning: The Case of the Austrian Freedom Party

Forchtner, Bernhard; Krzyżanowski, Michał; Wodak, Ruth

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“…Indeed, our view on discursive dynamics is deployed here in the course of the critical and in-depth exploration of the mutual interdependence of processes of politicization, on the one hand, and mediatization, on the other. Whereas the two notions have been widely debated in either social/political or media/communication theory, there have been few studies so far that would relate them to each other, especially in the sense of ideological dimensions of politicization as well as topdown strategic dimensions of mediatization (see also Forchtner, Krzy_ zanowski, & Wodak, 2013).…”

Section: Discursive Shifts Politicization and Mediatization: Interpmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mediatization and the Politicization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Europe

Krzyżanowski

Triandafyllidou

Wodak

2018

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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Mediated politics in/and the "refugee crisis" Much has been said in 2015-2016 and beyond about the so-called Refugee Crisisthat is, yet another pan-European "crisis" caused by the sudden massive asylumseeker flow from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq. Across Europe and especially in the key EU countries, there have been divergent interpretations of this process. Therein, various mobilizing and politicizing conceptsincluding humanitarianism, security, diversity, protectionism-were deployed in public discourses to legitimize the ever-new restrictions of migration and asylum policies and diverse expressions of solidarity or lack thereof. While, in general, we have experienced and witnessed many calls for control and urgency to manage the European borders more tightly-and to illustrate the sheer existence and plausibility of an EU-wide coordinated asylum policy response-there have also been many comments about a presumed regionally specific, including "Eastern" versus "Western" way of dealing with the issue. While central and eastern European countries generally seem to have failed to fulfill their asylum obligations, central, western and northern EU countries did, or at least attempted to, honor their commitments. Nevertheless, there has generally been a huge degree of change in attitudes towards openness and inclusion with, in the majority of cases, increased hostility and at best various reservations towards the incoming asylum seekers (for an extensive outline, see Triandafyllidou's article concluding and summarizing the findings of this Special Issue). Moreover, diverse interpretations have been put forward as far as this "new odyssey" (Kingsley, 2016) and a genuine human tragedy, indeed unprecedented in the postwar period, is concerned. These interpretations not only pertained to the geopolitical and politico-economic ontology of the so-called Refugee Crisis. They CONTACT Micha» Krzy_ zanowski

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Section: Discursive Shifts Politicization and Mediatization: Interpmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Mediatization and the Politicization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Europe

Krzyżanowski

Triandafyllidou

Wodak

2018

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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“…In a structural sense, online technologies also enabled right-wing populists -as we show, those politically-institutionalised or not -to effectively circumvent traditional media channels and form new communicative spaces where civic norms are reinterpreted, tested and, effectively, undermined. This, to be sure, has taken place quite similarly to the ways in which online communication has been efficiently used by right-wing populist politics whose online self-mediation has been used widely to spread uncivil populist ideologies and views, indeed often under the guise of closeness to citizens as well as of interactivity and familiarity (Calhoun 2016;Krzyżanowski 2013aKrzyżanowski , 2018aKrzyżanowski , 2018bForchtner, Krzyżanowski and Wodak 2013; see also Dahlgren and Alvares 2013).…”

Section: Uncivil 'Borderline' Discourses and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 93%

Uncivility on the web

Krzyżanowski

Ledin

2017

JLP

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This paper explores the connection between the rise of new types of online uncivil discourses and the recent success of populism. While discussions on the upsurge of populism have centred on institutionalised politics and politicians, only limited attention has been paid to how the success of the former and the latter was propelled by developments outside of the political realm narrowly conceived. Our interest is therefore in the rise of uncivil society, especially on the web, and in its ‘borderline discourse’ at the verge of civil and uncivil ideas, ideologies and norms. Those discourses – showcased here on the example of the language on immigration/refugees in Austria and Sweden – have been using civil-to-uncivil shifts in the discursive representations of society and politics. They have progressively ‘normalised’ the anti-pluralist views across many European public spheres on a par with nativist and exclusionary views now widely propagated by right-wing populist politics in Europe and beyond.

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“…Since 2013, refugees have become an increasingly salient topic of political debate (e.g., in the form of deplorable conditions in the refugee camp Traiskirchen), as evidenced by the official minutes of parliamentary debates. 2 In its oppositional role, the FP € O has intensified its rhetoric along the lines of "Austria first," shifting its discourse first to increasingly anti-Muslim (Krzy_ zanowski, 2013;Forchtner, Krzy_ zanowski, & Wodak, 2013) and, subsequently, anti-refugee positions (Fuchs, 2016). The center-right € OVP and the center-left SP € O, being coalition partners and, thus, strongly expected to perform a consensus-oriented frontstage politics, had not publicly negotiated conflicting agendas regarding refugees and asylum.…”

Section: Historical Context: Migration and Asylum In Austriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rationalization legitimation is legitimation by reference to some form of commonsense or by the experts who elaborate the domains of knowledge that can be used for the purpose of legitimation; for instance, economics can be used to legitimate contemporary austerity measures as in the interest of the nation. Such economization of discourse may manifest in references to resource or budget constraints that factually limit what one can do and informs figurative slogans such as, "the boat is full" (Khosra-viNik, 2010;Forchtner, Krzy_ zanowski, & Wodak, 2013). More generally, legitimation may also be attempted via major religions and ideologies (Berger & Luckmann, 1966).…”

Section: Border Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following pertinent research, we understand mediatized politics as politics that actually depends upon the mechanisms and reach of mass media, which is therefore ineffective without them (Str€ omb€ ack, 2008;Preston, 2009;Forchtner, Krzy_ zanowski, & Wodak, 2013). In close connection with mediatization effects, a "securitisation of migration" in relation to terrorism has been observed in post-9/ 11 migration policies and in the Schengen agreements and the gradual dismantling of national borders within the European Union (Bigo, 2002;Scheibelhofer, 2012, p. 325).…”

Section: Mediatization and Securitizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Borders, Fences, and Limits—Protecting Austria From Refugees: Metadiscursive Negotiation of Meaning in the Current Refugee Crisis

Rheindorf

Wodak

2017

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

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The so-called refugee crisis presents a field of discursive struggle over meanings in politics. In Austria, mediatized politics in 2015 and 2016 was dominated by metadiscursive negotiation of terminology related to building a border fence and setting a maximum limit on refugees. Both issues raised serious ideological and legal concerns and were thus largely euphemized; as responses to ever-increasing pressure from the political right, however, they were also intended as signals to voters. This article presents a discourse-historical study of the normalization of restrictive policies in the theoretical framework of border and body politics, otherness, and mediatization.

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Mediatization, Right-Wing Populism and Political Campaigning: The Case of the Austrian Freedom Party

Cited by 61 publications

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The Mediatization and the Politicization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Europe

The Mediatization and the Politicization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Europe

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Borders, Fences, and Limits—Protecting Austria From Refugees: Metadiscursive Negotiation of Meaning in the Current Refugee Crisis

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