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 ...
State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Echeverría, Sara García Santamaría, Daniel C. Hallin
August 28, 2024
This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and ...
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...
Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Marie Cronqvist, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, Emil Stjernholm
August 08, 2024
Integrating media studies with history, Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century explores the dynamic relationship between tactics and strategies in recent history. Drawing on examples from a range of different countries and world regions, and looking at the infrastructures, entanglements, and ...
European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication: Risks and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Zrinjka Peruško
July 23, 2024
European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication explores how four dimensions of national media systems – the legal framework for freedom of expression and information, media accountability, journalism and audience media usage and competencies – contribute to or are detrimental to the success ...
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Tabe Bergman, Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
June 21, 2024
This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media. Along with presenting original, empirical studies on how mainstream media in countries as...
Refugee Settlement in Australia: A Holistic Overview of Current Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Aparna Hebbani
June 03, 2024
Combining theoretical and practical information, this book presents a holistic overview of refugee settlement in Australia. It focuses on numerous critical aspects of refugee settlement which play a vital role in refugee integration into Australia. Starting with an overview of immigration history ...
From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement
1st Edition
By Robert H. Wicks, Shauna A. Morimoto, Jan LeBlanc Wicks
April 18, 2024
From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement examines how the prominent media available shapes each rising generation of citizens. The authors discuss how global and national events along with the media each generational group most frequently accessed defined ...