1st Edition

Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation

Edited By Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer Copyright 2025
214 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A critical and timely collection that argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. This book explores how “propaganda,” a foundational concept within media and communication studies, has recently been replaced by alternative terms (disinformation, misinformation, and fake news) that fail to capture the... Read more

1. Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation Barbie Zelizer and Nelson Ribeiro  2. Is Propaganda by Any Other Name Still Propaganda? Barbie Zelizer  3. Know Your Enemy:  Propaganda and Stereotypes of the “Other” from World War I to the Present David Welch  4. Manufacturing Public Perception: Big Lies, Alternative Facts and Controlled Language Nelson Ribeiro  5. Chinese Journalism and State Propaganda: Changes and Continuities from the 1990s to the 2020s Francis Lee  6. Putin’s Russia: Living in George Orwell Nina Khrushcheva  7. Media and Propaganda in Africa: Cracks, Crevices and Continuities Admire Mare  8. “Destroy this Mad Brute”: Propaganda and Sexual Violence Sarah Banet-Weiser  9. From Fake News to False Memories: Tracing the Consequences of Exposure to Misinformation Ciara Greene  10. Beyond the Shelves: Investigating Propaganda in the Library Miranda Clinton, Ellen Perleberg and Francesca Tripodi 

Biography

Nelson Ribeiro is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal. Among other publications, he is the author of “Broadcasting Agency in the Portuguese Empire: Disrupting the Dominant Discourse through Media Tactics,” in Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century (2024), co-author of The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting (2022), and co-editor of Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (2021).

Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, USA. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory, and images, particularly in times of crisis. She has authored 15 books, including the award-winning About To Die: How News Images Move the Public (2010) and Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (1998). Her upcoming book is entitled How the Cold War Broke the News (2025).