@inbook{36fecb5666d34980b769edf2e2ff00d5,
title = "Populism 2.0: social media and the false allure of 'unmediated' representation",
abstract = "This chapter interrogates a number of taken-for-granted assumptions about the relationship between populism and social media, and sets out four {\textquoteleft}traps{\textquoteright} for studying this relationship. These traps revolve around assumptions about social media{\textquoteright}s allegedly {\textquoteleft}direct{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}unmediated{\textquoteright} nature, representation and the uniformity of populist use of social media. Namely, these traps are: (1) mistaking directness for being {\textquoteleft}in touch{\textquoteright} with {\textquoteleft}the people{\textquoteright}; (2) fetishising the {\textquoteleft}unmediated{\textquoteright} nature of populism, thus ignoring the fact that all political representative claims are mediated; (3) assuming that populist online communication is multi-directional and (4) assuming that populist use of social media is relatively uniform.",
keywords = "populism, social media, representation",
author = "Benjamin Moffitt",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.4324/9781315108063",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138091375",
series = "Routledge Advances in Sociology",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "30--46",
editor = "Gregor Fitzi and J{\"u}rgen Mackert and Turner, {Bryan S.}",
booktitle = "Populism and the Crisis of Democracy",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}