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Two revolutions
occurred in Israel in the last decade of
the twentieth century. The first was in the field of communications and 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, based on solid theoretical analyses.
The book described the
political and media developments of this period from a historical point of
view and analyses the new, symbiotic construct that was created - mediapolitik. The author explores the ways in which the
media in Israel became multichannel and commercial, and
how visual culture, advanced by television, took the place of written culture
and undermined the hegemony of the press. Telepopulism
outlines the path that lad toward the establishment of Benjamin Netanyahu's
new "coalition of the rejected". Finally, this work shows how the
media influenced the crystallization of the six new "tribes" of
modern Israel.
Yoram Peri is the Head of The Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society
and Professor of Political Sociology and Communication in the Department of
Communication at Tel Aviv University. His previous books
include The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin (Stanford, 2000).
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