Others who might be interested: @duncanmcdonnell.com @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @visualpolitics.bsky.social @mattiazulianello.bsky.social @sabinedvolk.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @dbonansinga.bsky.social @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @emiliapalonen.bsky.social

Oh, there's also a video abstract, including a screenshot of me looking as smug as humanly possible
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This one will be of interest to populism scholars, visual politics scholars, and I think broader visual communication folk. Calling @bleiker.bsky.social @paologerbaudo.bsky.social @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @populism.bsky.social @populismblog.bsky.social @populismpsa.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social

I trace a shift from televisual mediation of ‘the people’, dependent on elite controlled platforms, to digitally enabled self-mediation, wherein publics broadcast themselves as ‘the people’ in real time via smartphones and social media. This comes with new, uninteded audiences however.

Opportunities for doing this have obviously changed over time due to shifts in visual technologies. To show this, I compare self-representations of 'the people' in the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt against Hugo Chávez & the 2021 US Capitol riots.

So much of the burgeoning literature on the visual politics of populism is 'top-down' - how do populist leaders & parties use visuals, basically. This article flips it, and looks at it from the 'bottom-up', examining how populist publics self-mediate as 'the people' under populism

Anthoula Malkopoulou and @benmoffitt.bsky.social ask - how should we respond to #populism? - arguing for responses to it to contain populism’s most egregious characteristics while salvaging its productive side.
@compeurpol.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Clap! Me too. Jeez that was long. That's a good project and title!

Is Populism Dead?
Is the Populist Tsunami Receding?
Is the Populist Earthquake Over?
Where Did I Put My Glasses?

That's very generous of you Kurt 😁

And I would think counting it as research would actively discourage social scientists from taking large numbers of PhDs on, unless you can "harvest" publications from them

Teaching! Politics in Australia. Counting it as research only works in the "lab/team model" for sciences - I think our social science PhD model trains students very differently (and as independent researchers), and we are unlikely to force ourselves onto our students' pubs

Shout out @lamestreampod.bsky.social - best podcast in the country

I have had editors question my use of "stoush" previously - had no idea it was purely an Australianism!

Tbh I had similar concerns when Latham joined the party. And look how that turned out.

Yeah you're probably (thankfully) right on both counts. Other than Malcolm Roberts, and I guess James Ashby, has Hanson sucessfully worked with literally anyone else?

I hope I'm not right, but if this happens, I would expect more politicians (like Canovan) to follow, and the polling for One Nation to climb upwards and upwards. I'm not saying it would be a Reform Party situation - but also not saying it wouldn't be somewhat like that

Yes, Joyce is a loose cannon, just like Latham was a loose cannon, but he's a far more effective retail politician, and is better and warmer at "doing populism" than either Hanson or Latham or anyone else on the Australian populist right.