Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy

Auteur

Elena Block is Lecturer in Strategic Communication at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. She holds a PhD in Political Communication from The University of Queensland and MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE). Her main areas of interest: political communication; strategic communication; populist communication; the mediatisation of politics and society; virtual and teen influencers and their role and impact on strategic communication and advocacy.

Résumé
In Discursive Disruption, Populist Communication and Democracy, Elena Block explores the links between declining democratic discourses, populist communication, and reflects on the communicative and moral dimensions of populism.

Contenu

1. The Disruption is Discursive 2. Democracy, trust, truths, lies, and style 3. Populist communication, discursive violence and disrupted democracy 4. The discursive disruption framework 5. Chávez and Trump as paradigms of discursive disruption 6. The moral language of populist communication