Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

<p>This companion brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <p>Introduction </p><p>1. Media Dis/Misinformation and Populism </p><p>Part 1 KEY CONCEPTS 2. What do we mean by populism? </p><p>3. Misinformation and Disinformation </p><p>4. Rethinking Mediatisation: Populism and the Mediatisation of Politics </p><p>5. Media Systems and Misinformation </p><p>6<i>. </i>Rewired Propaganda: Propaganda, Misinformation, and Populism in the Digital Age </p><p>7. Hate propaganda </p><p>8. Filter bubbles and digital echo chambers </p><p>9. Disputes over or against reality? Fine-graining the textures of post-truth politics </p><p>10.<i> </i>Fake News </p><p>PART 2 MEDIA MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION </p><p>11. The Evolution of Computational Propaganda: Theories, Debates, and Innovation of the Russian Model </p><p>12.<i> </i>Polarisation and Misinformation </p><p>13. Data Journalism and Misinformation <b></b></p><p>14.<i> </i>Media and the "Alt-Right" </p><p>15.<i> </i><b>‘</b>Listen to your gut’: How Fox News’ Populist Style Changed the American Public Sphere and Journalistic Truth in the Process<b> </b></p><p>16. Alternative media: challenging or exacerbating populism and mis/disinformation? </p><p>17. Online harassment of journalists as a consequence of populism, mis/disinformation, and impunity </p><p>18. Lessons from an extraordinary year: Four heuristics for studying mediated misinformation in 2020 and beyond </p><p>19.<i> </i>Right-wing Populism, Visual Disinformation, and Brexit: From the UKIP ‘Breaking Point’ poster to the aftermath of the London Westminster Bridge Attack </p><p>Part 3 THE POLITICS OF MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION </p><p>20. Misogyny and the politics of misinformation <b></b></p><p>21.<i> </i>Anti-immigration disinformation </p><p>22. Science and the politics of misinformation </p><p>23. Government Disinformation in war and conflict <b></b></p><p>24. Military Disinformation: A bodyguard of lies </p><p>25. Extreme right and mis/disinformation </p><p>26. Information disorder practices in/by contemporary Russia </p><p>27. Protest, Activism, and False Information </p><p>28. Conspiracy theories: Misinformed publics or wittingly believing "false" information? </p><p>29. Corrupted Infrastructures of Meaning: Post-truth Identities Online </p><p>30. Consumption of Misinformation and Disinformation </p><p>PART 4 MEDIA AND POPULISM </p><p>31. Populism in Africa<b>: </b>Personalistic Leaders and the Illusion of Representation </p><p>32. Populism and misinformation from the American Revolution to the 21st-century United States </p><p>33. Populism, Media, and Misinformation in Latin America </p><p>34. Perceived Mis- and Disinformation in a Post-Factual Information Setting: A Conceptualization and Evidence from ten European Countries </p><p>35. The Role of Social Media in the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Finland </p><p>36. Social Media Manipulation in Turkey: Actors, Tactics, Targets </p><p>37. Populist rhetoric and media misinformation in the 2016 UK Brexit referendum <b></b></p><p>38. Media policy failures and the emergence of right-wing populism </p><p>39. Disentangling Polarization and Civic Empowerment in the Digital Age: The Role of Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers in the Rise of Populism </p><p>Part 5 RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND POPULISM </p><p>40. Legal and regulatory responses to misinformation and populism </p><p>41<i>. </i>Global responses to misinformation and populism </p><p>42. Singapore’s fake news law: Countering populists’ falsehoods and truth-making </p><p>43. Debunking Misinformation </p><p>44. News Literacy and Misinformation </p><p>45. Media and Information Literacies as a Response to Misinformation and Populism </p><p>46. People-Powered Correction: Fixing Misinformation on Social Media </p><p>47.<i> </i>Countering Hate speech </p><p>48.<i> </i>Constructing digital counter-narratives as a response to disinformation and populism </p><p>49. Journalistic responses to misinformation </p><p>50. Responses to Mis/Disinformation: Practitioner Experiences and Approaches in Resource Poor Settings </p><p>51. The Effect of Corrections and Corrected Misinformation </p><p>52.<i> </i>Building Connective Democracy: Interdisciplinary Solutions to the Problem of Polarisation</p>