New Media and the Crowdsourcing of Politics: The Strange Case of Dr. Berlusconi and Mr. Grillo

Medijske Studije

Inoslav Bešker¹ 

[1] Alma mater studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy;

关键词: new media;    politics;    crowdsourcing;    populism;    Italy;    Grillo;    Berlusconi;   

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【 摘 要 】

The main Italian populist politicians, Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo, ensured their successes in parliamentary elections in 2013 combining a skilful use of electronic media with classical mass rallies, avoiding debates with competitors, and shunning journalists. The message of both Grillo and Berlusconi is characterized by populism, anti-party attitudes, demonization of opponents and an approach to the public and to politics focused on the leader. Although Grillo and Casaleggio emphasize their MoVement’s use of Internet as a direct democracy, claiming that the MoVements politics is created in equal measure by all the members, in a kind of a crowdsourcing, Grillo’s messages remain mostly unidirectional directives, more appropriate to a dictatorial than to a democratic discourse.

【 授权许可】

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