Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Media and Past Conflict in Europe: Dynamics of Mediation and Power
1st Edition
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By Eugenia Siapera, Anke Fiedler, Kenneth Andresen
October 31, 2025
Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory. The analysis centres around six countries which ...
Political Marketing on Social and Mobile Media: Remaking the Paradigm?
1st Edition
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By Melissa M. Smith
September 10, 2025
This book explores how social and mobile media have been used in political campaigns since 2008, examining how social media are already being implemented as well as how these types of messaging platforms might be used in the future. Chapters in this book discuss how social and mobile media are ...
Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies
1st Edition
By Olena Leipnik
July 02, 2025
Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies provides an account of the media portrayal of two presidents—Donald Trump of the United States and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation—as mythologized figures. The book delineates the mythologizing strategies media employ to build these two leaders’ ...
Critical Race Theory and the American Media
1st Edition
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By Sarah E. Turner, Sarah D. Nilsen
June 29, 2025
Critical Race Theory and the American Media analyzes the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies. Undertaking a two-tiered analysis of CRT and media studies, this volume showcases the wide range of ...
Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
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By Mette Marie Roslyng, Anna Rantasila, Anna Maria Jönsson
May 29, 2025
This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication. Arguing ...
Xenophobia in the Media: Critical Global Perspectives
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By Senthan Selvarajah, Nesrin Kenar, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Pradeep Dhakal
May 27, 2025
Through its global and critical perspectives, this book brings together knowledge, ideas and tools to understand the problems and identify effective solutions, best practices and alternative approaches to combat xenophobia in the media and build tolerance and social cohesion. Although various ...
Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect
1st Edition
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By Jayson Harsin
May 05, 2025
This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, misinformation, and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics. Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of ...
Contestation in Civil Society: Noise, Listening and Civil Action
1st Edition
By Stefanie Pukallus
April 21, 2025
Contestation in Civil Society looks at the dynamic relationship between noise, listening and civil action as the key to understanding how societies communicatively make decisions about their internal and external boundaries. By focusing on the three components of noise, listening and civil action, ...
Kremlin Media Wars: Censorship and Control Since the Invasion of Ukraine
1st Edition
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By Wendy Sloane, Aleksandra Raspopina
February 19, 2025
This unique volume brings together academics of Russian journalism and media with journalists and editors who reported or continue to report on the country, to explore and reflect on the changing landscape for journalists in Russia or covering Russia, and the increasing control exerted by the ...
Comedy, Cameos, and Campaign Communication: Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy
1st Edition
By Jason Turcotte
January 30, 2025
This book provides a thorough foundation for understanding the shift from political campaigning via legacy news media to campaigning through entertainment media. Public discourse that would once transpire on the newsprint of opinion pages or behind a news anchor’s desk and teleprompter is now ...
Visual Citizenship: Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media
1st Edition
By Catherine Bouko
January 30, 2025
This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital ...
Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age
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By Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
January 30, 2025
The book explores the relationship among young people, politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model, which accounts for the importance of a range of processes, actors and social structures in the political socialisation process. By ...