How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd)

IF 4.1 1区社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

International Journal of Press-Politics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI:10.1177/19401612211072692

Marcus Maurer, Pablo Jost, Marlene Schaaf, Michael Sülflow, S. Kruschinski

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Abstract

The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability to instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate media coverage and public awareness. To explain the success of populists’ deliberate provocations, we drew from research on populism and scandal theory to develop a theoretical framework that we tested in two studies examining the rise of German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) between January 2015 and December 2018. In Study 1, an input–output analysis of 17 deliberate provocations by AfD politicians in German news media revealed much more coverage about their attacks on migrants than about their attacks on political elites, although all were covered in predominantly scandalizing ways. Next, Study 2, involving media database research and an analysis of Google Trends data, showed that the provocations had increased overall media coverage about the AfD and influenced public awareness of the party

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右翼民粹主义者如何利用新闻媒体：蓄意挑衅、媒体报道丑闻和公众对德国另类选择的认识（Afd）

西方民主国家右翼民粹主义政党的崛起通常归因于民粹主义者有能力通过故意挑衅(例如，对移民或其他政党的政治家进行口头攻击)来利用新闻媒体，从而产生媒体报道和公众意识。为了解释民粹主义者蓄意挑衅的成功，我们借鉴了民粹主义和丑闻理论的研究，建立了一个理论框架，并在两项研究中对2015年1月至2018年12月期间德国右翼民粹主义政党德国新选择党(AfD)的崛起进行了测试。在研究1中，对德国新闻媒体上新选择党政客蓄意挑衅的17次投入产出分析显示，对他们攻击移民的报道远远多于对他们攻击政治精英的报道，尽管所有报道都以丑闻的方式为主。接下来，涉及媒体数据库研究和谷歌Trends数据分析的研究2表明，挑衅行为增加了媒体对德国新选择党的整体报道，并影响了公众对该党的认识

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International Journal of Press-Politics Multiple-

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12.10

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.