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Please join us at the CAMRI seminar in central London Thursday next week. How Does Populist Communication Succeed? Ferruh Yilmaz (Tulane University, USA) Date: Thursday, 14.02.2019 Time: 17.00-19.00 Place: University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW Room: G03 Fyvie Hall Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-does-populist-communication-succeed-tickets-54657521117 Focusing on the rhetoric of the populist right in Denmark, Ferruh Yilmaz will discuss how elite and media responses can end up confirming the logic of populist rhetoric. The main point is that the media and elite responses, even in their negative coverage (1) respond to crisis provoked by the far-right by accepting their basic premises (i.e. discussing whether immigrants’ cultural practices are a danger to social and national cohesion; (2) by doing so, use the same terms, categories and argumentative premises; (3) contribute to their provocation of crisis and moral panics; (4) and thus open up channels of discourse for the far-right populists who become the main protagonists of the crisis and render them part of the mainstream discourse. Biography Ferruh Yilmaz is currently Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Tulane University, USA. He was a British Academy fellow August 2018 - January 2019. Before becoming an academic, he worked as a journalist for a number of news organisations in Britain, Denmark and Turkey including the BBC World Service and Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and Cumhuriyet (Turkish daily newspaper). He also worked as an information officer at the Board for Ethnic Equality (Denmark) in the late 1990s. His selected publications include “From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right.” In O’Neill, D. and Wayne, M (eds.): Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century. Leiden, NL: Brill Publlishing (2018), “How the Workers Became Muslim: Immigration, Culture, and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe”. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press (2016); “Analyzing Variations and Stability in Discourse: Hegemony, Nation and Muslim Immigrants”, Journal of Language and Politics 14(6), 2015; “From Immigrant Worker to Muslim Immigrant: Challenges for Feminism”, European Journal of Women’s Studies 22(1), 2015, and “Right-wing Hegemony and Immigration: How the Populist Far-right Achieved Hegemony through the Immigration Debate in Europe”, Current Sociology60(3), 2012. Further CAMRI Seminars this term: * 21 February 2019: Phoebe Moore (University of Leicester) AI and Humans as Resources https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-and-humans-as-resources-tickets-54657722720 * 28 February 2019: Burcu Sümer (Ankara University, Turkey) The Transformation of the Media Industry in Turkey Under the AKP Rule https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-transformation-of-the-media-industry-in-turkey-under-the-akp-rule-from-europeanisation-to-full-tickets-54657966449 * 14 March 2019: Greg Singh (University of Stirling) Towards a Principle of Mutuality in Social Technologies https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-principle-of-mutuality-in-social-technologies-tickets-54658282394 * 21 March 2019: Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis & Alex Pazaitis (P2P Foundation) Book Launch ‘Peer to Peer. The Commons Manifesto’ (University of Westminster Press) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-university-of-westminster-press-tickets-54658391721 * 11 April 2019: Adi Kunstman (Manchester Metropolitan University) From digital solutionism to materialist accountability: Calling for a paradigmatic shift in digital media research https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-digital-solutionism-to-materialist-accountability-calling-for-a-paradigmatic-shift-in-digital-tickets-54658502051 The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA Policy mailing list W: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa-policy.html Please visit this page to browse list's archives, or to join or leave the list.