The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

This companion **brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally.

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.

Autorentext

Howard Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, UK. He is a founder and editor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely on the sociology of media and journalism.

Silvio Waisbord is Director of and Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, USA. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication, and he has published widely about news, politics, and social change.

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Introduction

1. Media Dis/Misinformation and Populism

Part 1 KEY CONCEPTS 2. What do we mean by populism?

3. Misinformation and Disinformation

4. Rethinking Mediatisation: Populism and the Mediatisation of Politics

5. Media Systems and Misinformation

6. Rewired Propaganda: Propaganda, Misinformation, and Populism in the Digital Age

7. Hate propaganda

8. Filter bubbles and digital echo chambers

9. Disputes over or against reality? Fine-graining the textures of post-truth politics

10. **Fake News

PART 2 MEDIA MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION

11. The Evolution of Computational Propaganda: Theories, Debates, and Innovation of the Russian Model

12. **Polarisation and Misinformation

13. Data Journalism and Misinformation ****

14. **Media and the "Alt-Right"

15. **'Listen to your gut': How Fox News' Populist Style Changed the American Public Sphere and Journalistic Truth in the Process ****

16. Alternative media: challenging or exacerbating populism and mis/disinformation?

17. Online harassment of journalists as a consequence of populism, mis/disinformation, and impunity

18. Lessons from an extraordinary year: Four heuristics for studying mediated misinformation in 2020 and beyond

19. **Right-wing Populism, Visual Disinformation, and Brexit: From the UKIP 'Breaking Point' poster to the aftermath of the London Westminster Bridge Attack

Part 3 THE POLITICS OF MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION

20. Misogyny and the politics of misinformation ****

21. **Anti-immigration disinformation

22. Science and the politics of misinformation

23. Government Disinformation in war and conflict ****

24. Military Disinformation: A bodyguard of lies

25. Extreme right and mis/disinformation

26. Information disorder practices in/by contemporary Russia

27. Protest, Activism, and False Information

28. Conspiracy theories: Misinformed publics or wittingly believing "false" information?

29. Corrupted Infrastructures of Meaning: Post-truth Identities Online

30. Consumption of Misinformation and Disinformation

PART 4 MEDIA AND POPULISM

31. Populism in Africa: Personalistic Leaders and the Illusion of Representation

32. Populism and misinformation from the American Revolution to the 21st-century United States

33. Populism, Media, and Misinformation in Latin America

34. Perceived Mis- and Disinformation in a Post-Factual Information Setting: A Conceptualization and Evidence from ten European Countries

35. The Role of Social Media in the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Finland

36. Social Media Manipulation in Turkey: Actors, Tactics, Targets

37. Populist rhetoric and media misinformation in the 2016 UK Brexit referendum ****

38. Media policy failures and the emergence of right-wing populism

39. Disentangling Polarization and Civic Empowerment in the Digital Age: The Role of Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers in the Rise of Populism

Part 5 RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND POPULISM

40. Legal and regulatory responses to misinformation and populism

41. Global responses to misinformation and populism

42. Singapore's fake news law: Countering populists' falsehoods and truth-making

43. Debunking Misinformation

44. News Literacy and Misinformation

45. Media and Information Literacies as a Response to Misinformation and Populism

46. People-Powered Correction: Fixing Misinformation on Social Media

47. **Countering Hate speech

48. **Constructing digital counter-narratives as a response to disinformation and populism

49. Journalistic responses to misinformation

50. Responses to Mis/Disinformation: Practitioner Experiences and Approaches in Resource Poor Settings

51. The Effect of Corrections and Corrected Misinformation

52. **Building Connective Democracy: Interdisciplinary Solutions to the Problem of Polarisation