Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Xenophobia in the Media: Critical Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
1st Edition
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 ...
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 ...