Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
China’s Digitalization of Public Diplomacy: Navigating Panda and Wolf Warrior Styles
1st Edition
By Zhao Alexandre Huang
December 07, 2026
This book investigates the digital transformation of public diplomacy of China, focusing on how the Chinese government has adapted and redefined this practice within its own political and ideological framework. Drawing on communicative constructivism, it conceptualizes the digitalization of ...
Trump's Presidency and America's Reputation: Global Perspectives
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By Alexander V. Laskin
October 20, 2026
Trump's Presidency and America's Reputation explores the global perception of the United States during Donald Trump's second presidency. A diverse team of authors examine how countries around the world view American leadership, policies, and international relations under President Trump, and how ...
The Critique of Pure Information: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democratic Life
1st Edition
By Jayson Harsin
September 25, 2026
The Critique of Pure Information offers a critical rethinking of disinformation, misinformation, and “post-truth” politics by challenging the assumption that political deception is best understood as a problem of false or impure information. This book argues that the dominant vocabulary of “...
Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media: Constructed Facts, Contested Truths
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By Mette Marie Roslyng, Anna Rantasila, Anna Maria Jönsson
August 27, 2026
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 ...
Kremlin Media Wars: Censorship and Control Since the Invasion of Ukraine
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By Wendy Sloane, Aleksandra Raspopina
July 20, 2026
This unique volume brings together academics of Russian journalism and media with journalists and editors who reported or continue to report on the country, to explore and reflect on the changing landscape for journalists in Russia or covering Russia, and the increasing control exerted by the ...
Contestation in Civil Society: Noise, Listening and Civil Action
1st Edition
By Stefanie Pukallus
July 19, 2026
Contestation in Civil Society looks at the dynamic relationship between noise, listening and civil action as the key to understanding how societies communicatively make decisions about their internal and external boundaries. By focusing on the three components of noise, listening and civil action, ...
European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication: Risks and Opportunities
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By Zrinjka Peruško
December 26, 2025
European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication explores how four dimensions of national media systems – the legal framework for freedom of expression and information, media accountability, journalism and audience media usage and competencies – contribute to or are detrimental to the success ...
Media, Dissidence and the War in Ukraine
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By Tabe Bergman, Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
December 26, 2025
This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of dissident perspectives in the West and the information quality and diversity on social media. Along with presenting original, empirical studies on how mainstream media in countries as...
Refugee Settlement in Australia: A Holistic Overview of Current Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Aparna Hebbani
December 26, 2025
Combining theoretical and practical information, this book presents a holistic overview of refugee settlement in Australia. It focuses on numerous critical aspects of refugee settlement which play a vital role in refugee integration into Australia. Starting with an overview of immigration history ...
Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century
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By Marie Cronqvist, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, Emil Stjernholm
December 25, 2025
Integrating media studies with history, Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century explores the dynamic relationship between tactics and strategies in recent history. Drawing on examples from a range of different countries and world regions, and looking at the infrastructures, entanglements, and ...
State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens
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By Martin Echeverría, Sara García Santamaría, Daniel C. Hallin
December 25, 2025
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 ...
Media and Past Conflict in Europe: Dynamics of Mediation and Power
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By Eugenia Siapera, Anke Fiedler, Kenneth Andresen
October 31, 2025
Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory. The analysis centers around six countries ...