The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation, London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 454 pp.
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation.This volume, published by Routledge in 2024, off ers an elaborate exploration into the evolving discourse around disinformation, misinformation, and related phenomena such as conspiracy theories, post-truth, and hate speech.The editors have combined their extensive academic backgrounds to create a comprehensive handbook that examines the methodological challenges and case studies across politics, society, and medicine.The book is structured into two main parts.The fi rst part, titled "Genres and Methodologies", includes a series of chapters that focus on the various genres and methodological approaches used to analyze disinformation.These include critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal approaches, and studies of genres such as headlines, memes, and tweets.The second part, titled "Case Studies", is divided into three sections: "(A) Politics", "(B) Society", and "(C) Medical discourses".It explores the application of disinformation discourse in specifi c contexts, such as immigration, the Brexit phenomenon, gendered and sexualized disinformation, and health-related misinformation, including the COVID-19 infodemic.In total, the book has 26 chapters regarding disinformation research.
Source: Contemporary Mediterranean
DOI: 10.17818/sm/2024/1.4
Author: Marko Roško
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405005916