Articles by Clara Juarez Miro

April 22, 2024

🔮 Exploring populist supporters’ complex relationship with journalism

Clara Juarez Miro

Supporters of populist parties endorse rhetoric that antagonises the press, yet they are also avid consumers of news. Clara Juarez Miro explores populist supporters' paradoxical relationship with journalism. Her research shows how central are emotion and social identities to populist supporters’ worldviews – and this shapes their perspectives on journalism

Clara Juarez Miro

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Communication, University of Vienna

Clara works on the FWF-research project Audience Expectations of News in the Digital Age at the University of Vienna's Journalism Studies Center.

She received her PhD in Mass Communication with a minor in Political Psychology from the Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota.

Her dissertation analysed how populist supporters form communities that address specific social-psychological needs based on their interpretation of messages by populist elites.

Her research interests are in journalism and political communication, specifically focusing on populism, social identities, online communities, and audience studies.

Her research on these topics has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Journalism, The Annals of the International Communication Association, The International Journal of Press/Politics, and Journalism Studies.

@clarajuarezmiro

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

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