Political communication around the world: New trends and threats

Abstract

The most noteworthy difference is in the popularity of the concept of mediatization. That word is rarely used in US scholarship. The idea that media logic affects political options, communication and behavior is accepted and researched, but not in terms of mediatization. The theoretical development and empirical studies of mediatization come mainly out of Europe. Framing seems to be thoroughly internationalized as a concept. Populism too, but perhaps understood more viscerally in Europe as a potential threat — right-wing populism especially, and particularly if it incorporates neo-Nazism.