ABSTRACT
This companion brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally.
The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism explores how recent transformations in the architecture of public communication and particular attributes of the digital media ecology are conducive to the kind of polarised, anti-rational, post-fact, post-truth communication championed by populism. It is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, consisting of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars analysing aspects of misinformation, disinformation, and populism across countries, political systems, and media systems. A global, comparative approach to the study of misinformation and populism is important in identifying common elements and characteristics, and these individual chapters cover a wide range of topics and themes, including fake news, mediatisation, propaganda, alternative media, immigration, science, and law-making, to name a few.
This companion is a key resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of political communication, journalism, law, sociology, cultural studies, international politics and international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|91 pages
Key concepts
chapter 9|9 pages
Disputes over or against reality?
part II|90 pages
Media misinformation and disinformation
chapter 11|10 pages
The evolution of computational propaganda
chapter 15|9 pages
‘Listen to your gut’
chapter 16|9 pages
Alternative online political media
chapter 18|10 pages
Lessons from an extraordinary year
chapter 19|11 pages
Right-wing populism, visual disinformation, and Brexit
part III|123 pages
The politics of misinformation and disinformation
chapter 28|10 pages
Conspiracy theories
part IV|102 pages
Media and populism
chapter 34|10 pages
Perceived mis- and disinformation in a post-factual information setting
chapter 39|15 pages
Disentangling polarisation and civic empowerment in the digital age
part V|134 pages
Responses to misinformation, disinformation, and populism