Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel - Paperback

Two revolutions occurred in Israel in the last decade of the twentieth century. The first was in the field of communications; the second was in politics. Telepopulism describes the political and cultural processes that took place in Israel during the 1990s, depicting the major political events of this period from a new, original, and provocative angle, with a foundation of solid theoretical analyses. This book describes the political and media developments of the 1990s from a historical point of view and analyses the new, symbiotic construct that was created--mediapolitik. It explores how the media in Israel become multi-channel and commercial, and explains why the visual culture, advanced by television, takes the place of the written culture and the hegemony of the press. Telepopulism outlines the ways that Benjamin Netanyahu established a new "coalition of the rejected." Finally, this work shows how media influence led to the crystallization of the six new tribes of modern Israel.