Guest Lecture Jana Goyvaerts
Media and populism: defending what kind of democracy?
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Online)
20.4.21
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Online)
20.4.21
On 20 April 2021 Jana Goyvaerts will give a lecture on media, anti-populist discourse and the dynamics of the populism debate. The lecture is followed by ample time for debate moderated by Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
The event takes place online from 13h-15h, and is open to everyone after registration through this link. The Zoom-link to attend the lecture will be sent out on the morning of the lecture.
The event takes place online from 13h-15h, and is open to everyone after registration through this link. The Zoom-link to attend the lecture will be sent out on the morning of the lecture.
Journalists are generally not very fond of populist politics, that much seems clear from the negative press populism has gotten. Much of the attention seems to be driven by concerns about the impact of populism on democracy, and the label is often used to place someone outside “political business as usual”. But when journalists take on this role as watchdog of democracy, what kind of democracy are they protecting? How do different models of democracy relate to these meaning-making practices around the signifier ‘populism’? When media construct a democracy in crisis, which ‘democracy’ is endangered? In what ways does ‘populism’ threaten this democracy?
Jana Goyvaerts is a PhD student and teaching assistant at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Her doctoral research focuses on discourses about populism and on how the meaning of populism is constructed by journalists, politicians and academics.
Jana Goyvaerts is a PhD student and teaching assistant at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Her doctoral research focuses on discourses about populism and on how the meaning of populism is constructed by journalists, politicians and academics.
This event is organized as part of the course “Populist and Radical Political Discourses in Europe”, taught by Benjamin De Cleen in the Journalism and Media in Europe Master.
Other guest lecturers in the series:
Other guest lecturers in the series:
- Giorgos Katsambekis: populism and ‘the people’: beyond moralism and homogeneity (9 March)
- Ruth Breeze: nationalism and populism on the radical right (16 March)
- Jacopo Custodi: nationalism and populism in Podemos (23 March)
- Léonie de Jonge: the media and the populist radical right (30 March)
- Katy Brown & Aurelien Mondon: media, populism and the mainstreaming of the radical right (27 April)
- Louise Knops: media, populism, indignation: insights from the radical-right (4 May)