The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xliv, 386 pp.
Contains 29 illustrations, index
ISBN 978-3-031-11976-7 (ebook); 978-3-031-11978-1 (pbk)
"The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge resource on the critical debates surrounding fake news and misinformation online. Spanning all continents and linking academic, journalistic, and educational communities, this collection offers authoritative coverage of conspiracy theories, the post-Trump and Brexit landscape, and the role of big tech in threats to democracy and free speech. The collection moves through a diagnosis of misinformation and its impacts on democracy and civic societies, the 'mainstreaming' of conspiracy theory, the impacts of misinformation on health and science, and the increasing significance of data visualization. Following these diagnoses, the handbook moves to responses from two communities of practice - the world of journalism and the field of media literacy." (Publisher description)
PART I: DEMOCRACY, DISRUPTION AND CIVIC CRISIS (DIAGNOSIS), 1
1 Civic Distance: Digital Culture's Intrusion on Trust, Engagement, and Belonging / Paul Mihailidis, 5
2 The Civic Media Observatory: Decoding Information Networks with Narrative Analysis / Ivan Sigal, 15
3 Upholding Digital Rights and Media Plurality: Does Self regulation by Social Media Platforms Contravene Freedom of Expression? / Ursula Smartt, 31
4 Fake News Deconstructed Teens and Civic Engagement: Can Tomorrow's Voters Spontaneously Become News Literate? / Katerina Chryssanthopoulou, 45
5 Peace, Public Opinion and Disinformation in Colombia: Social Media and Its Role in the 2016 Plebiscite / Jesús Arroyave and Martha Romero-Moreno, 63
6 Radical Interventions: Archaeology, Forensics and Montage / Pablo Martínez-Zárate, 79
PART II: 'FAKE NEWS', CONSPIRACY, PROPAGANDA (DIAGNOSIS)
7 SAVE ME WHITE JESUS! Conspiracy and the Spectre of a Folkloric, Alt-right Masculine Ideal / Phil Barber, 101
8 Fake News: Problems with-and Alternatives to-the Media Literacy Project / Adrian Quinn, 109
9 Fact-Checking in Hong Kong: An Emerging Form of Journalism and Media Education Amid Political Turmoil / Masato Kajimoto, 121
10 Confronting Coronavirus Propaganda / Renee Hobbs and Igor Kanižaj, 139
PART III: HEALTH, SCIENCE AND DATA (DIAGNOSIS)
11 Gaslighting: Fake Climate News and Big Carbon's Network of Denial / Antonio López, 159
12 Using Disparagement Humour to Deal with Health Misinformation Endorsers: A Case Study of China's Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid Incident / Xin Zhao and Yu Xiang, 179
13 Citizens' Networks of Digital and Data Literacy / Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi, 191
14 Re-thinking Media Literacy to Counter Misinformation / Peter Cunliffe-Jones, 207
15 Combatting Information Disorder: A South Asian Perspective / Dipak Bhattarai, 221
PART IV: JOURNALISM (RESPONSE) 229
16 The Unhealed Wound: Offcial and Unoffcial Journalisms, Misinformation and Tribal Truth / Graham Majin, 233
17 What Happened Next? / Jon Sopel, 249
18 The Agenda-Setting Power of Fake News / Fran Yeoman and Kate Morris, 265
19 Can We Rebuild Broken Relationships? Examining Journalism, Social Media, and Trust in a Fractured Media Environment / Patrick R. Johnson and Melissa Tully, 279
20 Images, Fakery and Verifcation / Susan Moeller and Stephen Jukes, 297
PART V: MEDIA LITERACY (RESPONSE) 315
21 Civic Intentionality First: A Tunisian Attempt at Creating Social Infrastructure for Youth Representation / Habib M. Sayah, 319
22 South Island School-The Agence France Presse Affliated News Unit / Iain Williamson, 333
23 Intergenerational Approaches to Disinformation and Clickbait: Participatory Workshops as Co-learning-Based Spaces / Maria José Brites, Ana Filipa Oliveira, and Carla Cerqueira, 343
24 Digital Media Literacy with Sati (Mindfulness): The Combining Approach Underlying the Thai Contexts / Monsak Chaiveeradech, 357
25 Media Literacy in the Infodemic / Julian McDougall and Karen Fowler-Watt, 371
1 Civic Distance: Digital Culture's Intrusion on Trust, Engagement, and Belonging / Paul Mihailidis, 5
2 The Civic Media Observatory: Decoding Information Networks with Narrative Analysis / Ivan Sigal, 15
3 Upholding Digital Rights and Media Plurality: Does Self regulation by Social Media Platforms Contravene Freedom of Expression? / Ursula Smartt, 31
4 Fake News Deconstructed Teens and Civic Engagement: Can Tomorrow's Voters Spontaneously Become News Literate? / Katerina Chryssanthopoulou, 45
5 Peace, Public Opinion and Disinformation in Colombia: Social Media and Its Role in the 2016 Plebiscite / Jesús Arroyave and Martha Romero-Moreno, 63
6 Radical Interventions: Archaeology, Forensics and Montage / Pablo Martínez-Zárate, 79
PART II: 'FAKE NEWS', CONSPIRACY, PROPAGANDA (DIAGNOSIS)
7 SAVE ME WHITE JESUS! Conspiracy and the Spectre of a Folkloric, Alt-right Masculine Ideal / Phil Barber, 101
8 Fake News: Problems with-and Alternatives to-the Media Literacy Project / Adrian Quinn, 109
9 Fact-Checking in Hong Kong: An Emerging Form of Journalism and Media Education Amid Political Turmoil / Masato Kajimoto, 121
10 Confronting Coronavirus Propaganda / Renee Hobbs and Igor Kanižaj, 139
PART III: HEALTH, SCIENCE AND DATA (DIAGNOSIS)
11 Gaslighting: Fake Climate News and Big Carbon's Network of Denial / Antonio López, 159
12 Using Disparagement Humour to Deal with Health Misinformation Endorsers: A Case Study of China's Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid Incident / Xin Zhao and Yu Xiang, 179
13 Citizens' Networks of Digital and Data Literacy / Simeon Yates and Elinor Carmi, 191
14 Re-thinking Media Literacy to Counter Misinformation / Peter Cunliffe-Jones, 207
15 Combatting Information Disorder: A South Asian Perspective / Dipak Bhattarai, 221
PART IV: JOURNALISM (RESPONSE) 229
16 The Unhealed Wound: Offcial and Unoffcial Journalisms, Misinformation and Tribal Truth / Graham Majin, 233
17 What Happened Next? / Jon Sopel, 249
18 The Agenda-Setting Power of Fake News / Fran Yeoman and Kate Morris, 265
19 Can We Rebuild Broken Relationships? Examining Journalism, Social Media, and Trust in a Fractured Media Environment / Patrick R. Johnson and Melissa Tully, 279
20 Images, Fakery and Verifcation / Susan Moeller and Stephen Jukes, 297
PART V: MEDIA LITERACY (RESPONSE) 315
21 Civic Intentionality First: A Tunisian Attempt at Creating Social Infrastructure for Youth Representation / Habib M. Sayah, 319
22 South Island School-The Agence France Presse Affliated News Unit / Iain Williamson, 333
23 Intergenerational Approaches to Disinformation and Clickbait: Participatory Workshops as Co-learning-Based Spaces / Maria José Brites, Ana Filipa Oliveira, and Carla Cerqueira, 343
24 Digital Media Literacy with Sati (Mindfulness): The Combining Approach Underlying the Thai Contexts / Monsak Chaiveeradech, 357
25 Media Literacy in the Infodemic / Julian McDougall and Karen Fowler-Watt, 371
