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Internet Media & Democratic Erosion : = Polarization, Populism, & the Online Marketplace.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Internet Media & Democratic Erosion :/
Reminder of title:	Polarization, Populism, & the Online Marketplace.
Author:	Bennett, Andrew David.
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29319928click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798351455235

Internet Media & Democratic Erosion : = Polarization, Populism, & the Online Marketplace.
Bennett, Andrew David.

Internet Media & Democratic Erosion :Polarization, Populism, & the Online Marketplace. - 1 online resource (212 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Despite early euphoria that the internet might usher in a golden age of democratization, there is now widespread concern that it may also feed the kinds of mass polarization, apathy, and populist backlash that has spurred democratic erosion and breakdown all over the globe. This dissertation explores the recent surges of affective polarization and support for populism in electoral democracies by focusing on the systemic dimension of the online media environment. Specifically, this project puts forth the concept of informational contestation-arguing that for a country's media to remain accountable to democratic ends and society at large, free access to and an abundance of media options are simply not enough-contestation must be integrated into the informational marketplace via independent regulation and ownership diversity, transparency, and competition. When the media-and especially the revolutionary internet media-is lacking along this dimension, there is little to prevent powerful elites and corporations from exploiting these communications systems as tools for profit, manipulation, and control-often using polarizing, misleading, and outrage-centric rhetoric as weapons to sow division and intensify/mobilize bases of support.To test this argument, this dissertation presents both (1) an original dataset (Internet Media Market Concentration) that attempts to capture the concept of informational contestation in the online realm, as well as (2) original field interviews from democratizing Tunisia that offer firsthand insights into how internet media and media ownership have shaped the nation's struggles with polarization and populist backlash throughout its ongoing transition. Overall, I find statistical evidence that greater concentration of internet ownership and online audiences each contribute to higher levels of affective polarization and populist party vote share in electoral democracies. Likewise, my case analysis of Tunisia reveals a failure to democratize the nation's media sphere throughout its early transition period. As a result, powerful elites, former regime officials, and other anti-democratic forces were able to exploit the internet/media in order to spread an unchecked deluge of bias, misinformation, conspiracies, and populist outrage-all of which further deepened divisions, polarization, and mistrust of the democratic process-ultimately disrupting and distorting the nation's push to consolidate its democracy, and setting the stage for a recent power grab by its populist president.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798351455235Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Democratic erosionIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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