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Germany : Transnationalisation of Populist Radical Right
Tekijät: Elo Kimmo
Toimittaja: Herkman Juha, Palonen Emilia
Kustantaja: Springer Nature Switzerland
Kustannuspaikka: Cham
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Populism, Twitter and the European Public Sphere : Social Media Communication in the EP Elections 2019
ISBN: 978-3-031-41736-8
eISBN: 978-3-031-41737-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41737-5_3
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41737-5_3
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The chapter discusses the political context in Germany during the 2019 EP elections and introduces the political communication environment of the country. Particular attention is given to the role of Twitter in German political communication and populism in the country's party field during the twenty-first century. The empirical Twitter analysis focuses on 6266 tweets sent from 297 Twitter accounts by various political actors during a one-month period in May 2019. The analysis demonstrates that German tweeting activity was dominated by both non-traditional modern parties such as the Greens, and by populist movements such as the radical right AfD. In addition to elections and voting, the emphasis above made climate change and immigration popular themes in German Twitter campaigns. The confrontation between liberal pro-European green and conservative Eurosceptic radical right camps highlighted attacking rivals in German campaign discussions. Topic modelling supports the idea of the highly polarised debates in these two camps. However, the network analysis indicates that there were more traditional institutionalised mediators in the German Twittersphere, and that discussions travelled with Austrian representatives of the greens and radical right. Even if the radical right AfD was active in the German Twitter campaign, it was unsuccessful in mainstreaming populism in Germany, where populism has remained `fringe'.
The chapter discusses the political context in Germany during the 2019 EP elections and introduces the political communication environment of the country. Particular attention is given to the role of Twitter in German political communication and populism in the country's party field during the twenty-first century. The empirical Twitter analysis focuses on 6266 tweets sent from 297 Twitter accounts by various political actors during a one-month period in May 2019. The analysis demonstrates that German tweeting activity was dominated by both non-traditional modern parties such as the Greens, and by populist movements such as the radical right AfD. In addition to elections and voting, the emphasis above made climate change and immigration popular themes in German Twitter campaigns. The confrontation between liberal pro-European green and conservative Eurosceptic radical right camps highlighted attacking rivals in German campaign discussions. Topic modelling supports the idea of the highly polarised debates in these two camps. However, the network analysis indicates that there were more traditional institutionalised mediators in the German Twittersphere, and that discussions travelled with Austrian representatives of the greens and radical right. Even if the radical right AfD was active in the German Twitter campaign, it was unsuccessful in mainstreaming populism in Germany, where populism has remained `fringe'.
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