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Visual Citizenship Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media

Visual Citizenship: Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Catherine Bouko
October 13, 2023

This book explores visual political engagement online – how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions. Looking beyond large digital ...

Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age

Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
October 13, 2023

The book explores the relationship among young people, politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model, which accounts for the importance of a range of processes, actors and social structures in the political socialization process.   ...

Media and Democracy in the Middle East

Media and Democracy in the Middle East

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Nael Jebril, Mohammed-Ali Abunajela
September 20, 2023

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship between media consumption and activism in the region, providing thorough analyses on the appropriation of social media for political engagement.   Since the...

Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion The Covid-19 Infodemic and Beyond

Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion: The Covid-19 Infodemic and Beyond

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Brian H. Spitzberg
September 08, 2023

This book explores the phenomenon of distortion of information through media via the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which relevant information distortion and virality have occurred in regard to the disease and its risks. Positing that the interrelated processes of misinformation, ...

Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy Humor and the Mexican Media

Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Martin Echeverria, Frida V. Rodelo
August 25, 2023

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies. Centered around Mexico as a case study, the book explores the production of political entertainment in post-authoritarian legacy media and how political and ...

Right-Wing Media’s Neurocognitive and Societal Effects

Right-Wing Media’s Neurocognitive and Societal Effects

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Rodolfo Leyva
July 31, 2023

This book explores the effects of both old and new conservative media on political attitudes and attitude-consistent behavioral intentions. The author combines the latest neuro-cognitive research and theories on information and misinformation processing and attitudinal development with extensive ...

Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology

Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Olena Leipnik
June 14, 2023

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth. By offering an account of three milestones in the development of the frontier mythology in its intersection with presidential imagery, the ...

White Supremacy and the American Media

White Supremacy and the American Media

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah D. Nilsen, Sarah E. Turner
May 31, 2023

This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming, has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse. With chapters by today’s preeminent critical race scholars, the book looks in ...

The Economic Policy of Online Media Manufacture of Dissent

The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent

1st Edition

By Peter Ayolov
May 04, 2023

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent. Following the media criticism tradition of Habermas and Chomsky, among others, the book shows how anger ...

Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments When the Virtual Becomes Real

Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real

1st Edition

Edited By Lisa M. Cuklanz
December 30, 2022

This book examines contexts, practices, and activism on issues of gender violence at the intersections of online and public spaces. Through individual case studies, the volume considers the interplay between the virtual worlds of online spaces including social media, physical spaces and bodies, and...

A Media Framing Approach to Securitization Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat

A Media Framing Approach to Securitization: Storytelling in Conflict, Crisis and Threat

1st Edition

By Fred Vultee
October 14, 2022

Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. Because securitization studies the construction of...

Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement From Baby Boomers to Generation Z

Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement: From Baby Boomers to Generation Z

1st Edition

By Kim Andersen, Jakob Ohme, Camilla Bjarnøe, Mats Joe Bordacconi, Erik Albæk, Claes H. de Vreese
August 01, 2022

This book investigates news use patterns among five different generations in a time where digital media create a multi-choice media environment. The book introduces the EPIG Model (Engagement-Participation-Information-Generation) to study how different generational cohorts’ exposure to ...

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