Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism

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.

• 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