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Routledge Focus on Communication and Society


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Routledge Focus on Communication and Society offers both established and early-career academics the flexibility to publish cutting-edge analysis on topical issues, research on new media or in-depth case studies within the broad field of media, communication and cultural studies. Its main concerns are whether the media empower or fail to empower popular forces in society; media organisations and public policy; and the political and social consequences of the media.

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Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming The Court of Public Opinion

Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming: The Court of Public Opinion

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang, Rashid Gabdulhakov
June 25, 2024

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny. Digital media denunciation has become a primary ...

Social Media and Hate

Social Media and Hate

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Shakuntala Banaji, Ramnath Bhat
May 27, 2024

Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies. Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, and the extreme violence and discrimination they initiate against ...

Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media Information Pathologies

Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media: Information Pathologies

1st Edition

By Eileen Culloty, Jane Suiter
May 31, 2023

Drawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its potential countermeasures. Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media presents a model of the disinformation process ...

News Media and the Financial Crisis How Elite Journalism Undermined the Case for a Paradigm Shift

News Media and the Financial Crisis: How Elite Journalism Undermined the Case for a Paradigm Shift

1st Edition

By Adam Cox
May 26, 2022

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis. Drawing on an ...

The Construction of News in a Polarised State Maltese Advocacy Journalism

The Construction of News in a Polarised State: Maltese Advocacy Journalism

1st Edition

By Adrian Hillman
May 24, 2022

Taking a qualitative approach based on original case studies, this book offers a detailed overview of the contemporary media system in Malta. Three Maltese news organisations are examined to understand the editorial routines, ownership and management structures, and social and cultural factors that...

Right-Wing Alternative Media

Right-Wing Alternative Media

1st Edition

By Kristoffer Holt
August 06, 2019

This book offers a fresh perspective on central questions related to right-wing alternative media: Can right-wing media be alternative? Why do they exist? Are they a threat to the existing order and what have the reactions been from mainstream politicians and media actors? The rise and success of ...

Reporting China on the Rise Habitus and Prisms of China Correspondents

Reporting China on the Rise: Habitus and Prisms of China Correspondents

1st Edition

By Yuan Zeng
April 29, 2019

Drawing on the structural-constructivist framework of journalistic field and habitus, Reporting China on the Rise examines the internal and external dynamics which are shaping the work of foreign correspondents in China during Xi Jinping’s tenure. This study presents findings from extensive ...

Bad News from Venezuela Twenty years of fake news and misreporting

Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of fake news and misreporting

1st Edition

By Alan Macleod
April 11, 2018

Since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998, Venezuela has become an important news item. Western coverage is shaped by the cultural milieu of its journalists, with news written from New York or London by non-specialists or by those staying inside wealthy guarded enclaves in an intensely ...

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