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Cristian Norocel

Ov Cristian Norocel

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Cristian Norocel

Integration or isolation? Mapping out the position of radical right media in the public sphere

Author

  • Ov Cristian Norocel
  • Gabriella Szabó
  • Márton Bene

Summary, in English

The study explores the validity of the media visibility thesis in a cross-country comparative framework, concentrating on the position of media outlets sympathetic or affiliated to the populist radical right parties in the public spheres in Hungary and Romania. The visibility of such media outlets in the public sphere is considered crucial in the context of discursive opportunities for political mobilization, whereby the presence of discursive elements of populist radical right communication in mainstream media is understood as empirical evidence for the visibility of populist radical right politics. We analyze first the characteristics of media discourses. We then identify the positions of radical right media products in relation to mainstream media. Using network analysis as a methodological approach, we evince the differences and similarities pertaining to the location of radical right media in the wider network architecture of the public spheres in Hungary and Romania.

Publishing year

2017-01-01

Language

English

Pages

3764-3788

Publication/Series

International Journal of Communication

Volume

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

USC Annenberg Press

Topic

  • Communication Studies
  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Hungary
  • Political communication
  • Public sphere
  • Radical right media
  • Romania

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1932-8036