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NEWNEWS

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New Parties on the News How New s Media and New Parties Shape Attention and El...
New Parties on the News How New s Media and New Parties Shape Attention and Electoral Support for Political Ideas For democracy, a necessary condition is openness to new political ideas. New ideas are often advanced by new political parties. New parties must rely on media to communicate with the electorate. In the process of that communicatio... For democracy, a necessary condition is openness to new political ideas. New ideas are often advanced by new political parties. New parties must rely on media to communicate with the electorate. In the process of that communication, it is inevitable that these media largely shape new parties’ public image. However, studies of new parties pay little attention to media. Vice versa, studies of media pay little attention to new parties. As a result, we lack a full explanation of new party emergence. This hinders our understanding of the openness of democratic systems, and of their current renewal. While Vox, M5S, and AfD experience unprecedented success, we hardly know 1. how (much) news media cover new parties; 2. what factors shape that coverage; 3. how (much) that coverage facilitates new party emergence; 4. how (much) social media use facilitates new party emergence. NEWNEWS addresses these questions by developing and testing an Integrative Framework of Political Party Gatekeeping. It adds to the literature in terms of theory (‘bringing in’ media and voter perceptions) and methodology (experimental methods and data science). The project seizes new opportunities: -Thanks to cutting edge analytical models, it adequately tests causes and electoral effects of that coverage, taking into account agency of new parties and heterogeneity of news outlets and voters; -Thanks to recent data collection, it encompasses all national-level new parties in 19 countries since 1950 (instead of only successful ones); -Thanks to innovations in automated content analysis, it maps national-level coverage of these parties in various offline and online sources (instead of only newspapers). NEWNEWS will reveal media portrayals of new parties, how these portrayals vary, and how they matter for election outcomes. This way, it will offer a novel theoretical framework, conceptualisations, operationalisations, data, and algorithms – and open up new lines of research on media and new voices. ver más
31/12/2025
RHUL
2M€
Duración del proyecto: 62 meses Fecha Inicio: 2020-10-15
Fecha Fin: 2025-12-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2020-10-15
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2019-COG: ERC Consolidator Grant
Cerrada hace 5 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 2M€
Líder del proyecto
ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5