Full Description
This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicians.
With an international team of expert authors, this volume meticulously scrutinises instances of State-sponsored disinformation across a diverse spectrum of 14 countries encompassing Western and Eastern Europe, North and Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It examines how political landscapes amplify or constrain disinformation, advancing a comprehensive understanding of its dynamics in the contemporary global milieu. The book is organised in three sections that gather case studies from democratic, non-democratic, and transitional regimes.
Advancing the field of misinformation and disinformation studies by specialising in State-sponsored operations and their consequences, this book will be an essential volume for scholars and upper-level students of media and communication studies, journalism, political communication, disinformation and misinformation, social media, sociology, and international politics.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction. Deceiving from the top: State-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon.
PART I. Theoretical and epistemological underpinnings of state-sponsored disinformation
Chapter 2. Theoretical understanding of State-Sponsored Disinformation.
Chapter 3. Rethinking disinformation for the global South: towards a particular research agenda.
Chapter 4. Statistics and State-Sponsored Disinformation: Understanding the Propaganda War on Numbers.
PART II: Liberal Democracies
Chapter 5. Populist Disinformation: Mapping the Discursive Connections between Online Populism and Disinformation in the US.
Chapter 6. From Tragedy to Oblivion: State-sponsored Disinformation in the Aftermath of the Sewol Ferry Disaster.
Chapter 7. Spanish far-right and environmental disinformation: VOX's obstructionist discourse on the climate crisis on Twitter.
Chapter 8. Combatting and Defeating Chinese Propaganda and Disinformation: A Case Study of Taiwan's 2020 Elections.
PART III: Electoral Democracies
Chapter 9. State-sponsored disinformation in Brazil: distrust and delegitimization of the electoral system through the use of political authority Facebook accounts.
Chapter 10. Citizen's participation on social media against State-sponsored Disinformation during the Pandemic in Argentina.
Chapter 11. State-sponsored Disinformation in Greece: From the Novartis Scandal to the Wiretapping of Politicians, Journalists and Citizens.
Chapter 12. Investing In Fake News? The Disinformation Industry in Kenya's 2022 Elections.
PART IV: Electoral and Closed Autocracies
Chapter 13. Discourses and Policies of Disinformation in Turkey.
Chapter 14. Disinformation under the guise of democracy. Lessons from Hungary.
Chapter 15. Russian Federation's FIMI prior to its Intervention in Ukraine.
Chapter 16. The Genealogy of State-Sponsored Disinformation in Nigeria: Elections, Political Deception, and Governing through the Lens of Post-Truth.
Chapter 17. State-Sponsored Disinformation through Digital Media in Malaysia.
Chapter 18. State-Sponsored Disinformation, Hate Speech, and Violence: Mapping Conceptual Connections through Iran's Anti-Bahá'í Propaganda.
Chapter 19. From censorship to disinformation. Cuba's official discourse on contentious activism.
