Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media
1st Edition
By Jon Yuan Jiang
April 01, 2024
This book focuses on Australian mainstream media narratives about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2013 to 2020. Set against the background of Sino-Australian relations and taking into account the different media systems of China and Australia, this book also critically investigates the ...
Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments
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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
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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
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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, ...
White Supremacy and the American Media
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By Sarah D. Nilsen, Sarah E. Turner
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming, has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse. With chapters by today’s preeminent critical race scholars, the book looks in ...
Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real
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By Lisa M. Cuklanz
December 30, 2022
This book examines contexts, practices, and activism on issues of gender violence at the intersections of online and public spaces. Through individual case studies, the volume considers the interplay between the virtual worlds of online spaces including social media, physical spaces and bodies, and...
Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement: From Baby Boomers to Generation Z
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By Kim Andersen, Jakob Ohme, Camilla Bjarnøe, Mats Joe Bordacconi, Erik Albæk, Claes H De Vreese
August 01, 2022
This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model (Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how different generational cohorts’ exposure to ...
Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror
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By Vaheed Ramazani
August 01, 2022
Drawing on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives, this book examines discourses mediating the global War on Terror, including governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs. The book argues that these discourses motivate, and are motivated by, a ...
Threat Communication and the US Order after 9/11: Medial Reflections
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By Vanessa Ossa, David Scheu, Lukas R.A. Wilde
August 01, 2022
This volume investigates the perception of threat, with particular regard to the roles, functions, and agencies of various types of media. With a focus on the profound impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US-American political, social, and cultural order, the chapters reach ...