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标题：Impact of Trump’s Digital Rhetoric on the US Elections: A View from Worldwide Far-Right Populism
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作者：Concha Pérez-Curiel ; Rubén Rivas-de-Roca ; Mar García-Gordillo 等
期刊名称：Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2076-0760
出版年度：2021
卷号：10
期号：5
页码：152
DOI：10.3390/socsci10050152
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：A time of turmoil and uncertainty is invading the public sphere. Under the framework of the 2020 US elections, populist leaders around the world supported Trump’s speech on Twitter, sharing a common ideology and language. This study examines which issues (issue frame), and strategies (game frame) framed the messages of populism on Twitter by analyzing the equivalences through Trump’s storytelling and checking the bias of the media in the coverage of the US elections. We selected a sample of tweets (in/i = 1497) and digital front pages of global newspapers (in/i = 112) from the date of the Trumpiden face-to-face debate (29 September 2020) until the Democratic party candidate was proclaimed the winner of the elections by the media (7 November 2020). Using a content analysis method based on triangulation (quantitative and qualitative-discursive), we analyzed the Twitter accounts of five leaders (@realDonalTrump, @MLP_officiel, @matteosalvinimi, @Santi_ABASCAL, and @Jairbolsonaro) and five digital front pages (iThe New York Times/i, iO Globo/i, iLe Monde/i, iLa Repubblica,/i and iEl País/i). The results show that populist politicians reproduced the discourse of fraud and conspiracy typical of Trump’s politics on Twitter. The negative bias of the media was also confirmed, giving prominence to a rhetoric of disinformation that overlaps with the theory of populism.