Dear NUSE and ECHO members,

This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming seminar with Reece Peck on Friday, 6 October, from 15:00 to 16:30 at Pleinlaan 5, 4th floor, Raadzaal PL5.4.21. If you haven't already, please RSVP on the Teams event. This will help us get a sense of the number of attendees for the catering.

We're looking forward to seeing you there. For more details, please find the full invitation sent earlier by Omran below.

Kind regards,

Daniel

We would like to invite you to our upcoming DESIRE-ECHO-SMIT Research Seminar with Reece Peck, Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, on Friday 6 October, 15:00-16:30 - Pleinlaan 5, 4th floor, Raadzaal PL5.4.21.

In his talk titled ‘The Power of Political Style: Comparing Populist Media, From Fox News to The Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left’, Recce Peck will be discussing the importance of style as an analytical category for studying modern news branding and political movements.

For a full description of the talk, please see below.

We hope you will be able to join.

Best wishes,

Omran

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The Power of Political Style: Comparing Populist Media, From Fox News to The Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left’

This research seminar offers insights into why Fox News—conservative America’s number one news source—has been commercially successful and politically effective. Where existing explanations of Fox's appeal have stressed the network's conservative editorial slant, Dr. Reece Peck sheds light on the importance of its style as a generative mode of ideology. In addition to tracing Fox’s historical ascendancy, this talk compares the conservative cable giant with the progressive YouTube-based network the Young Turks (TYT). TYT stands as one of YouTube’s longest-running and most successful “news and politics” channels on the platform. This talk stresses the importance of style as an analytical category for studying modern news branding and political movements and argues that there is no inherent connection between media populism and political conservatism — even though today, thanks to US conservative media, many conflate the two.

Personal biography

Reece Peck is an Associate Professor teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center and is the author of Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class (Cambridge, 2019). His research uses concepts and methods from sociology, political science, and media studies to examine populist rhetorical styles, partisan news, and tabloid media. In addition to providing commentary for outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vice TV, Peck was among a select group of media scholars asked to provide written testimony to the Congressional Investigatory Committee on the January 6 Capitol riot.