Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
The Belt and Road Initiative and Australian Mainstream Media
1st Edition
By Jon Yuan Jiang
October 27, 2025
This book focuses on Australian mainstream media narratives about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2013 to 2020. Set against the background of Sino-Australian relations and taking into account the different media systems of China and Australia, this book also critically investigates the ...
From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement
1st Edition
By Robert H. Wicks, Shauna A. Morimoto, Jan LeBlanc Wicks
September 29, 2025
From Legacy Media to Going Viral: Generational Media Use and Citizen Engagement examines how the prominent media available shapes each rising generation of citizens. The authors discuss how global and national events along with the media each generational group most frequently accessed defined ...
Political Marketing on Social and Mobile Media: Remaking the Paradigm?
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa M. Smith
September 10, 2025
This book explores how social and mobile media have been used in political campaigns since 2008, examining how social media are already being implemented as well as how these types of messaging platforms might be used in the future. Chapters in this book discuss how social and mobile media are ...
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 ...
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 ...