Ana Inés Langer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Inés Langer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana Inés |
| FAMILY NAME | Langer |
| SIGNATURE | LANGER A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5331-544X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Fringe to Power in the TikTok Age: Libertarian Ideology and Transgressive Performances in Milei’s ‘Populism Without the People’
Democracies around the world are under strain from radical right populist leaders and parties, raising urgent questions about their appeal. One way to approach this is by examining what and how they communicate on social media. TikTok warrants close attention, not only as the fastest-growing platform for news and information, but also because of the wider ‘Tiktokification’ of social media and the growing importance of visual communication. Yet po…
Social Media and Policy Change: The Chinese Government’s Strategic Policy Responsiveness During the Covid-19 Pandemic
We know surprisingly little about when and how governments respond with policy change to the public’s opinions expressed on social media. Even studies of autocracies like China – the focus of much social media research – have concentrated on single cases or events. This article, based on a mixed method analysis of Chinese social media and policy datasets for the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first to explore in depth when and…
Exploring the campaign space of non-party activism in the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections
In recent years there has been an increase in election-focused activity undertaken by non-party organisations. This activism concerns issues such as political education, cross-party collaboration, voter registration, and voter advice. Using the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections as case studies, we take a strategic action field approach to analyse how this campaign space is developing. We demonstrate the existence of competing logics of activism …
The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System: Why Legacy Media Still Matter a Great Deal
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum
Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated with fundamental changes to campaign organizations, specifically to the command and control model? Second, under what conditions are challenges to the model more likely to emerge? Using mixed methods, our analysis of the case demonstrates that radical org…
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
The personalization of politics in comparative perspective: Campaign coverage in Germany and the United Kingdom
In the last few decades personalization has been identified as a defining trend of contemporary political communication. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed and there are very few studies that explore more than a single-case study. This article investigates media personalization in comparative perspective by analysing the press coverage of recent general elections in Germany (2009) and the United Kingdom (2010). Was the reporting in both ca…
Populism versus Neoliberalism: Diversity and Ideology in the Chinese Media’s Narratives of Health Care Reform
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
The Politicization of Private Persona: Exceptional Leaders or the New Rule? The Case of the United Kingdom and the Blair Effect
This article investigates the extent and nature of the press coverage of the personal lives and personal qualities of contemporary British political leaders. In particular, it explores the legacy of the politicization of Blair’s private persona, or the Blair effect. Was Blair’s era a temporary anomaly, or did it have a transformative effect on the way that parties, politicians, and journalists conceive the role of the personal in public discourse…
A Historical Exploration of the Personalisation of Politics in the Print Media: The British Prime Ministers (1945–1999)
This article examines the historical evolution of the personalisation of politics in the print media. Analysis of The Times from 1945 to 1999 demonstrates, firstly, that there has been a positive trend in leaders' overall mediated visibility and, to a lesser extent, in the salience of Prime Ministers' leadership qualities. However, both variables have shown a fair degree of fluctuation. Secondly, there has been a clear move towards the portrayal …
Political advertising: Why is it so boring
Most analysis of political advertising questions how it matches up to the normative standard of providing information to voters. It tends to treat advertising as a core, and often debased, resource for deliberation. However, advertising as a form is less suited to complex information and more to engagement of interest. Despite this, political advertising normally is both constructed and analysed as information carriers. While commercial advertisi…
A Historical Exploration of the Personalisation of Politics in the Print Media: The British Prime Ministers (1945–1999)
This article examines the historical evolution of the personalisation of politics in the print media. Analysis of The Times from 1945 to 1999 demonstrates, firstly, that there has been a positive trend in leaders' overall mediated visibility and, to a lesser extent, in the salience of Prime Ministers' leadership qualities. However, both variables have shown a fair degree of fluctuation. Secondly, there has been a clear move towards the portrayal …
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System: Why Legacy Media Still Matter a Great Deal
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
The personalization of politics in comparative perspective: Campaign coverage in Germany and the United Kingdom
In the last few decades personalization has been identified as a defining trend of contemporary political communication. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed and there are very few studies that explore more than a single-case study. This article investigates media personalization in comparative perspective by analysing the press coverage of recent general elections in Germany (2009) and the United Kingdom (2010). Was the reporting in both ca…
The Politicization of Private Persona: Exceptional Leaders or the New Rule? The Case of the United Kingdom and the Blair Effect
This article investigates the extent and nature of the press coverage of the personal lives and personal qualities of contemporary British political leaders. In particular, it explores the legacy of the politicization of Blair’s private persona, or the Blair effect. Was Blair’s era a temporary anomaly, or did it have a transformative effect on the way that parties, politicians, and journalists conceive the role of the personal in public discourse…
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum
Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated with fundamental changes to campaign organizations, specifically to the command and control model? Second, under what conditions are challenges to the model more likely to emerge? Using mixed methods, our analysis of the case demonstrates that radical org…
Populism versus Neoliberalism: Diversity and Ideology in the Chinese Media’s Narratives of Health Care Reform
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
Political advertising: Why is it so boring
Most analysis of political advertising questions how it matches up to the normative standard of providing information to voters. It tends to treat advertising as a core, and often debased, resource for deliberation. However, advertising as a form is less suited to complex information and more to engagement of interest. Despite this, political advertising normally is both constructed and analysed as information carriers. While commercial advertisi…
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Exploring the campaign space of non-party activism in the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections
In recent years there has been an increase in election-focused activity undertaken by non-party organisations. This activism concerns issues such as political education, cross-party collaboration, voter registration, and voter advice. Using the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections as case studies, we take a strategic action field approach to analyse how this campaign space is developing. We demonstrate the existence of competing logics of activism …
Political advertising: Why is it so boring
Most analysis of political advertising questions how it matches up to the normative standard of providing information to voters. It tends to treat advertising as a core, and often debased, resource for deliberation. However, advertising as a form is less suited to complex information and more to engagement of interest. Despite this, political advertising normally is both constructed and analysed as information carriers. While commercial advertisi…
A Historical Exploration of the Personalisation of Politics in the Print Media: The British Prime Ministers (1945–1999)
This article examines the historical evolution of the personalisation of politics in the print media. Analysis of The Times from 1945 to 1999 demonstrates, firstly, that there has been a positive trend in leaders' overall mediated visibility and, to a lesser extent, in the salience of Prime Ministers' leadership qualities. However, both variables have shown a fair degree of fluctuation. Secondly, there has been a clear move towards the portrayal …
The Politicization of Private Persona: Exceptional Leaders or the New Rule? The Case of the United Kingdom and the Blair Effect
This article investigates the extent and nature of the press coverage of the personal lives and personal qualities of contemporary British political leaders. In particular, it explores the legacy of the politicization of Blair’s private persona, or the Blair effect. Was Blair’s era a temporary anomaly, or did it have a transformative effect on the way that parties, politicians, and journalists conceive the role of the personal in public discourse…
Populism versus Neoliberalism: Diversity and Ideology in the Chinese Media’s Narratives of Health Care Reform
Research on the Chinese media has concentrated on understanding party-state control over an increasingly commercialized industry. And it has usually focused on reporting issues over which the central party-state has a clear and unified position. This article explores how the Chinese media reported a domestic policy issue—health reform—on which the party-state had no unified position. It examines three print publications during a major health care…
The personalization of politics in comparative perspective: Campaign coverage in Germany and the United Kingdom
In the last few decades personalization has been identified as a defining trend of contemporary political communication. The empirical evidence, however, is mixed and there are very few studies that explore more than a single-case study. This article investigates media personalization in comparative perspective by analysing the press coverage of recent general elections in Germany (2009) and the United Kingdom (2010). Was the reporting in both ca…
Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget
A country's budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a uniqu…
Bring back the party: Personalisation, the Media and Coalition Politics
What effect, if any, does a change in type of government have on the degree of media personalisation? This article argues that the different incentives that single- and multi-party governments provide to individual politicians and parties affect the level of media personalisation. Where the parties are more involved (i.e. multi-party coalitions) there will be less media personalisation. In contrast, where a single individual can command the party…
Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum
Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated with fundamental changes to campaign organizations, specifically to the command and control model? Second, under what conditions are challenges to the model more likely to emerge? Using mixed methods, our analysis of the case demonstrates that radical org…
Political Agenda Setting in the Hybrid Media System: Why Legacy Media Still Matter a Great Deal
This article examines the roles of the media in the process of political agenda setting. There is a long tradition of studies on this topic, but they have mostly focused on legacy news media, thus overlooking the role of other actors and the complex hybrid dynamics that characterize contemporary political communication. In contrast, through an in-depth case study using mixed-methods and multiplatform data, this article provides a detailed analysi…
Exploring the campaign space of non-party activism in the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections
In recent years there has been an increase in election-focused activity undertaken by non-party organisations. This activism concerns issues such as political education, cross-party collaboration, voter registration, and voter advice. Using the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections as case studies, we take a strategic action field approach to analyse how this campaign space is developing. We demonstrate the existence of competing logics of activism …
The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze
Although the Reddit-led short squeeze of GameStop shares in 2021 drew comparisons with Occupy Wall Street, this article focuses on one key area of difference: where Occupy exemplified the theoretical model of connective action through its discursive and technological openness, mobilisation around the short squeeze followed a different pattern characterised by discursive and technological disconnections, which we argue partly reflects the interven…
Social Media and Policy Change: The Chinese Government’s Strategic Policy Responsiveness During the Covid-19 Pandemic
We know surprisingly little about when and how governments respond with policy change to the public’s opinions expressed on social media. Even studies of autocracies like China – the focus of much social media research – have concentrated on single cases or events. This article, based on a mixed method analysis of Chinese social media and policy datasets for the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first to explore in depth when and…
From Fringe to Power in the TikTok Age: Libertarian Ideology and Transgressive Performances in Milei’s ‘Populism Without the People’
Democracies around the world are under strain from radical right populist leaders and parties, raising urgent questions about their appeal. One way to approach this is by examining what and how they communicate on social media. TikTok warrants close attention, not only as the fastest-growing platform for news and information, but also because of the wider ‘Tiktokification’ of social media and the growing importance of visual communication. Yet po…
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