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  • Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis

    A GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MEDIA GROUP BOOK

    Edited by Catherine Happer, Alison Eldridge, Paul Reilly ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this book, the Glasgow University Meda Group bring their innovative and forensic three-dimensional methodological approach to understanding the role of media in shaping Britain’s cost of living crisis. In the context of neoliberal austerity, welfare cuts and the corporate capture of media platforms, itprovides evidence ofan increasing disconnect between the narratives promoted by the mainstream ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The construction of public opinion in a digital age

    by Catherine Happer ...
    This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure. Drawing on a series of empirical studies conducted over nearly a decade, Happer deploys evidence of a ‘disconnect’ between neoliberal media and the public which is rooted in a disaffection ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security

    New Methods in Understanding Audiences

    by Greg Philo, Catherine Happer ...
    Series series Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
    This book, drawing on new research conducted for the UK Energy Resource Centre (UKERC), examines the contemporary public debate on climate change and the linked issue of energy security. It analyses the key processes which affect the formation of public attitudes and understanding in these areas, while also developing a completely new method for analysing these processes. The authors address ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Trump’s Media War

    Edited by Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there seemed to be a new de-synchronicity – a huge reality gap – between the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media’s interpretations of and reporting of contemporary events. Through a series of short, sharp interventions from academics and journalists, this book ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Death of Truth

    Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

    by Michiko Kakutani ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reasonWe live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The ... Read more

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  • The Retreat of Western Liberalism

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  • Post-Truth

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    We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into ... Read more

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  • Facts and Other Lies

    Welcome to the Disinformation Age

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  • Post-Truth

    The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

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  • News and How to Use It

    What to Believe in a Fake News World

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    A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We’re barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to ... Read more

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