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  • Election news in six European countries: what is covered and how? – Study for research project
    Publication . Salgado, Susana; Balabanic, Ivan; Garcia-Luengo, Óscar; Mustapic, Marko; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Stępińska, Agnieszka; Suiter, Jane
    This research project analyses the coverage of national elections that happened around the same time (between September 2015 and February 2016), in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain, and Ireland) where different issues were at stake. Questions, such as the following, guide the overall analysis: Which issues are most covered by the news media and how? In what ways is news election coverage similar and different in these countries? Are there distinctive patterns of election news coverage in these countries?
  • Our goal: Comparing news performance
    Publication . Vreese, Claes de; Esser, Frank; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Aalberg, Toril; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Reinemann, Carsten; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Stanyer, James; Strömbäck, Jesper
  • Conclusion: assessing news performance
    Publication . Vreese, Claes de; Reinemann, Carsten; Esser, Frank; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Aalberg, Toril; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Stanyer, James; Strömbäck, Jesper
    At the outset, we asked if there is any good news about the news and, if so, where the good news is. In academic research and public discussions about news and democracy, one finds different interpretations of the state of current news provision. A tendency towards pessimism about current news performance is commonplace. Although there is an overall proliferation of both traditional and newer forms of online news availability and supply (Esser, de Vreese et al. 2012), many suggest that the performance of news providers is getting worse. In more or less explicit terms, the decreasing quality of news is seen as having a negative impact on the quality of political life and democracy. Set against the pessimism and caution in the public debate and literature on news quality and the performance of political journalism, we were not optimistic that we would find good-quality news or that we would be able to offer some good news as a positive antidote, so to speak, to the pervasive pessimism in the literature.
  • Why no populism in Portugal?
    Publication . Carreira da Silva, Filipe; Salgado, Susana
    Why study populism? Because populism, left and right, has been on the rise. Talk of populism is all around us: countless talk shows, columns, and op-eds have been devoted to it and everyone seems to have a strong opinion about its dangers. Yet, both outside and inside academia, what populism means remains elusive and how it works is poorly understood. Half a century of populist research has failed to reach a consensus about a minimal definition of populism. It has today several different meanings, an implicit normative duplicity, and its operationalization remains at the very least challenging.
  • Where’s populism? Online media and the diffusion of populist discourses and styles in Portugal
    Publication . Salgado, Susana
    Portuguese politics and mainstream media have been resistant to the recent spread of populism. This article examines the specific features of Portuguese politics and media that might explain the apparent exception, and puts it to test by analysing the prevalence of populist discourses and styles of communication in different types of online media. The sample is composed of mediated and unmediated messages on immigration and corruption, two issues that are commonly present in populist discourses by both right- and left-wing political actors. Overall, the content analysis shows that although populist discourses are not recurrent in politics and media, social media have amplified the visibility of this kind of dis- courses in Portugal.
  • Introduction: populist discourses and political communication in Southern Europe
    Publication . Salgado, Susana; Stavrakakis, Yannis
    This article provides the contextual background to the symposium on Populist Discourses and Political Communication in Southern Europe. It explains the symposium’s objectives and introduces the rationale of its articles on Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Within this context, the editors also highlight the specific conditions for the emergence of typical forms of Southern European populism, as well as its distinctive features, focusing on the challenges populism poses to politics and media research. The implications of the phenomenon for the future of the European project are also addressed.