Bart Cammaerts
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Defending Democracy Against Populist Neo-Fascist Attacks: The Role and Problems of Public Sphere Theory Open
In the wake of the recent attacks on democracy by a re-invigorated populist neo-fascism there is a pressing need to articulate a middle ground position in debates between the public sphere paradigm and its critiques. This requires an engag…
On the Need to Revalue Old Radical Imaginaries to Assert Epistemic Media and Communication Rights Today Open
In this chapter, the liberal radical and the socialist radical imaginaries are foregrounded as providing important historical justifications for democratic and emancipatory public interventions in the context of media and communication. Fi…
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions Open
The circulation of the discourse as well as the direct actions of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement is analysed by considering the production of movement discourses in conjunction with the way in which the movement self-med…
Capitalism versus capitalism: Fox News and ‘strategic lying’ Open
In the US, two election technology companies are suing right-wing broadcaster Fox News for defamation over the network’s coverage of the 2020 presidential election, when it broadcast stories about rigged voting machines. Bart Cammaerts loo…
Digital platform policy and regulation: toward a radical democratic turn Open
This article considers challenges to policy and regulation presented by the dominant digital platforms. A radical democratic framing of the deliberative process is developed to acknowledge the full complexity of power relations that are in…
A genealogy of communicative affordances and activist self-mediation practices Open
In this chapter, the focus is on the various ways in which activists across time and space have appropriated traditional media – print cultures, audio, and broadcasting – as well as telecommunication and the internet to develop resistance …
The Mainstreaming of Extreme Right-Wing Populism in the Low Countries: What is to be Done? Open
In this article, I address the way in which extreme right populist actors in Belgium and the Netherlands have managed to mainstream their divisive and racist discourse. Processes of othering, the identification of a set of ideological enem…
Providing a broadcast platform for extremist politicians is unethical Open
This article by Bart Cammaerts, Associate Professor in Media and Communications, LSE The decision of ITV to invite EDL leader Tommy Robinson on their breakfast news show Good Morning Britain was not only misguided and dangerous, but above …
Should the news media link the murder of Jo Cox with the Brexit campaign Open
This article is by Dr Bart Cammaerts, LSE. The media have diligently and extensively reported on the just concluded trial of Thomas Mair, who murdered the pro-migrant Labour MP Jo Cox just before the Brexit vote. Across all media platforms…
Overcoming net-centricity in the study of alternative and community media Open
It is timely to start a journal that focuses on alternative and community media as distinct phenomena to research and theorise. Over the last two decades, the study of alternative – that is, non-mainstream – media and bottom-up, community,…
Journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn in the British Press: from "watchdog" to "attackdog" Open
Academic report on journalistic representations of Jeremy Corbyn.
A recipe for a right-wing assault on public service media? Open
This article by Dr Bart Cammaerts, of the LSE Media and Communications Department. While the announcement of the BBC to mothball the BBC Food site seems at first to be a somewhat trivial decision, it proved to be highly controversial and i…
Brussels 22/3 (guest blog) Open
The Brussels attacks should prompt serious introspection about European society, but are also part of the internationalisation of the Syrian war, writes LSE Media and Communications Associate Professor Dr Bart Cammaerts
The polls were right but they were interpreted badly Open
By Dr Bart Cammaerts It is interesting to see how opinion polls are being blamed recently for all sorts of things.
Youth Participation in Democratic Life Open
This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics a