Full Description
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and "fake news".
Divided into two sections, it provides a detailed look at the methodological challenges and approaches for studying disinformation, along with a wide range of case studies covering everything from climate change denial to COVID-19 conspiracies. The studies address how discourses of disinformation are constructed and developed, what rhetorical and persuasive strategies they employ, how disinformation can be discerned from real news, and what steps we might take in order to create a more trustworthy news environment.
Authored by leading experts from around the world, and showcasing the most up-to-date methodological approaches to the topic, the volume makes a significant contribution to current linguistic research on politics, and is an essential guide to the discourses of disinformation for advanced students and researchers of English language studies, linguistics, and media and communication studies.
Contents
1. The Various Dimensions of Disinformation: An Introduction
Part I: Genres and methodologies
2. The Expression of Bias in (Online) Newspaper Headlines
3. Critical Discourse Analysis Approaches to Investigating Fake News and Disinformation
4. Introducing Digital Source Criticism: A Method for Tackling Fake News and Disinformation
5. A Model for Understanding and Assessing Semi-Fake Scientific News Reporting
6. Misinformation Detection in News Text: Automatic Methods and Data Limitations
7. Fakespeak in 280 Characters: Exploring the Language of Disinformation on Twitter through a Comparative Corpus-based Approach
8. Debunking Fake News through the Multimodal Composition of Internet Memes
9. "It's never about #ProLife, it's about punishment, hate, and religious repression." Polarising Discourses and Disinformation in the Abortion Debate on Twitter
10. Investigating the Language of Fake News across Cultures
Part II: Case studies
A. Politics
11. Disinformation and Immigration Discourses
12. Brexit and Disinformation
13. New Dogs, Old Tricks. A Corpus-Assisted Study of the 'Art' of Delegitimisation in Modern Spoken Political Discourse
14. The Military's Approach to the Information Environment
15. Attitudes about Propaganda and Disinformation: Identifying Discursive Personae in YouTube Comment Sections
16. Citizens' Perspectives on the News Media and Democracy: a Citizens' Panel Case Study from Wales
B. Society
17. (Dis)information and Ethical Guidelines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting on Violence against Women
18. Online Gendered and Sexualised Disinformation against Women in Politics
19. The Rainbow Conspiracy: A Corpus-Based Social Media Analysis of Anti-LGBTIQ+ Rhetoric in Digital Landscapes
20. The Discourses of Climate Change Denialism across Conspiracy and Pseudoscience Websites
21. Reframing of Fake in Art Discourse
C. Medical discourses
22. Exploring Health-related Misinformation, Disinformation and "Fake News"
23. The COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter: Dialogic Contraction within the Echo Chambers
24. COVID-19 Parody Fake Voice Messages on WhatsApp
25. The Impact of Covid-19 Reports on Multicultural Young People's Social and Psychological Well-Being: Novel Experiential Metaphors in an ELF-Mediated Debate on Fake News
26. Mapping Polylogical Discourse to Understand (Dis)Information Negotiation: The Case of the UK Events Research Programme
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