Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Media and Democracy in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Nael Jebril, Mohammed-Ali Abunajela
December 18, 2024
This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship between media consumption and activism in the region, providing thorough analyses on the appropriation of social media for political engagement. Since the ...
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
1st Edition
By Martin Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
December 18, 2024
The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies. Centered around Mexico as a case study, the book explores the production of political entertainment in post-authoritarian legacy media and how political and ...
Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology
1st Edition
By Olena Leipnik
November 29, 2024
This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth. By offering an account of three milestones in the development of the frontier mythology in its intersection with presidential imagery, the ...
Right-Wing Media’s Neurocognitive and Societal Effects
1st Edition
By Rodolfo Leyva
November 28, 2024
This book empirically tests, compares, and explains the effects of British and American legacy conservative press and far-right websites, on accordant political views and behavioural intentions. Correspondingly, the 2016 Brexit Referendum and American Presidential election results are often ...
The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent
1st Edition
By Peter Ayolov
November 28, 2024
This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent. Following the media criticism tradition of Habermas and Chomsky, among others, the book shows how anger ...
A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat
1st Edition
By Fred Vultee
August 26, 2024
Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. Because securitization studies the construction of...
Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesper Strömbäck, Åsa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun Lindholm, Henrik Oscarsson
January 29, 2024
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge ...
Tweeting Brexit: Social Media and the Aftermath of the EU Referendum
1st Edition
By Maja Šimunjak
January 29, 2024
Tweeting Brexit presents the most thorough examination of the role that the most political social network, Twitter, played in creating, negotiating, and challenging Brexit narratives during the process of UK’s exiting of the European Union. Working with multiple methods, from digital media analysis...
Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo
September 25, 2023
This timely volume offers a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the role of communication in the construction of hate speech and polarization in the online and offline arena. Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media ...
Populist Disinformation in Fragmented Information Settings: Understanding the Nature and Persuasiveness of Populist and Post-factual Communication
1st Edition
By Michael Hameleers
September 25, 2023
In this highly relevant work, Dr. Michael Hameleers illuminates the role of traditional and social media in shaping the political consequences of populism and disinformation in a mediatized era characterized by post-factual relativism and the perseverance of a populist zeitgeist. Using comparative ...
Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe
1st Edition
By Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele, Christian Lahusen
September 25, 2023
This book examines the ‘European refugee crisis’, offering an in-depth comparative analysis of how public attitudes towards refugees and humanitarian dispositions are shaped by political news coverage. An international team of authors address the role of the media in contesting solidarity towards ...
Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion: The COVID-19 Infodemic and Beyond
1st Edition
By Brian H. Spitzberg
September 08, 2023
This book explores the phenomenon of distortion of information through media via the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which relevant information distortion and virality have occurred in regard to the disease and its risks. Positing that the interrelated processes of misinformation, ...