Layout: A5 HuSSci Book ID: 468610_1_En Book ISBN: 978-3-030-04621-7 Chapter No.: 4 Date: 4 December 2018 20:34 Page: 73/99 73 CHAPTER 4 Populism and Contemporary Global Media: Populist Communication Logics and the Co-construction of Transnational Identities Precious N. Chatterje-Doody and Rhys Crilley INTRODUCTION The academic study of populism has been well established since at least the 1960s. However, there remains significant contestation about what populism is; how to approach it; and what it offers either for under- standing, and/or transforming contemporary politics. Furthermore, the study of populism has been influenced by its development in response to observable phenomena. First, existing studies usually focus on specific leaders or movements within nation-states in a relatively restricted geo- graphical area. Second, the media is generally treated as a dissemination tool of such populist actors, rather than as a producer of populism in itself. Finally, the study of populism has engaged weakly with web 2.0 © The Author(s) 2019 F. A. Stengel et al. (eds.), Populism and World Politics, Global Political Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04621-7_4 P. N. Chatterje-Doody (*) University of Manchester, Manchester, UK e-mail: precious.chatterje-doody@manchester.ac.uk R. Crilley The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK e-mail: rhys.crilley@open.ac.uk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6