Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies
1st Edition
By Olena Leipnik
July 02, 2025
Trump and Putin in Media Mythologies provides an account of the media portrayal of two presidents—Donald Trump of the United States and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation—as mythologized figures. The book delineates the mythologizing strategies media employ to build these two leaders’ ...
Critical Race Theory and the American Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah E. Turner, Sarah D. Nilsen
June 29, 2025
Critical Race Theory and the American Media analyzes the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies. Undertaking a two-tiered analysis of CRT and media studies, this volume showcases the wide range of ...
Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
1st Edition
Edited
By Mette Marie Roslyng, Anna Rantasila, Anna Maria Jönsson
May 29, 2025
This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science and environment communication. Arguing ...
Xenophobia in the Media: Critical Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Senthan Selvarajah, Nesrin Kenar, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Pradeep Dhakal
May 27, 2025
Through its global and critical perspectives, this book brings together knowledge, ideas and tools to understand the problems and identify effective solutions, best practices and alternative approaches to combat xenophobia in the media and build tolerance and social cohesion. Although various ...
Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect
1st Edition
Edited
By Jayson Harsin
May 05, 2025
This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, misinformation, and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics. Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of ...
Comedy, Cameos, and Campaign Communication: Leveraging Entertainment Media to Win Elections and Advance Policy
1st Edition
By Jason Turcotte
January 30, 2025
This book provides a thorough foundation for understanding the shift from political campaigning via legacy news media to campaigning through entertainment media. Public discourse that would once transpire on the newsprint of opinion pages or behind a news anchor’s desk and teleprompter is now ...
Visual Citizenship: Communicating political opinions and emotions on social media
1st Edition
By Catherine Bouko
January 30, 2025
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
1st Edition
By Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
January 30, 2025
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 socialisation process. By ...
Media and Democracy in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Nael Jebril, Mohammed-Ali Abunajela
December 18, 2024
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 ...
Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
1st Edition
By Martin Echeverría, Frida V. Rodelo
December 18, 2024
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 ...
Donald Trump in the Frontier Mythology
1st Edition
By Olena Leipnik
November 29, 2024
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 ...
Right-Wing Media’s Neurocognitive and Societal Effects
1st Edition
By Rodolfo Leyva
November 28, 2024
This book empirically tests, compares, and explains the effects of British and American legacy conservative press and far-right websites, on accordant political views and behavioural intentions. Correspondingly, the 2016 Brexit Referendum and American Presidential election results are often ...