Social media play an increasingly important role in political communication. Various studies investigated how individuals adopt social media for political discussion, to share their views about politics and policy, or to mobilize and protest against social issues. Yet, little attention has been devoted to the main actors of political discussions: the politicians. In this paper, we explore the t...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the rhetoric and reality of the impact of political blogs in the specific context of American politics, where online, mainstream media and academic accounts suggest blogs have had significant impacts on political communication. Design/Methodology/Approach: This paper examines three high profile events in which blogging has been implicated as part...

Through theories of mediatization it is commonly understood that political institutions and participatory practices adapt to the logics of mainstream media. Today the overall media and communication landscape is becoming digitalized. Technological processes of digitalization evolve in tandem with socio-cultural processes of reflexivity and individualization in late modernity. Thus politics and ...

Emotions have always been invested in politics. Politicians and politically biased public intellectuals manage citizens’ emotions for various purposes: to alienate them from the rival political camp make participate elections or politics general. <em>Ressentiment</em> is an affective style of great potential it present throughout democratic European societies. By analysing discourse...

The loss of mainstream political parties’ credibility, the mistrust over traditional sources information, rise social media in public scenario, and ideological polarization splitting states into different sides seem to be most recent personality our democracy. Through this study, we will understand what extent populist rhetoric affects decisions both civic personal sphere. Are owners mindset, o...