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- Explores how mainstream press, in the social media age, is failing to confront the emotiveness of Post-Truth while actually feeding it
- Analyses the synergies that can combine in Post-truth Eurosceptic press discourse
- Unravels the power struggles below the surface of subsequent political and media discourse analysed
Part of the book series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society (RPS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- discourse analysis
- Euroscepticism
- post-truth
- misinformation
- Eurosceptic populism
- emotive rhetoric
- Italian General Election 2018
- EU elections 2019
- 2016 UK referendum
- persuasive news
- newspaper discourse
- Facebook analysis
- UK election 2017
- mainstream media
- post-truth and hate speech
- emotive Post-Truth rhetoric
- politics and social media
- Brexit
Reviews
— "In the new Covid-19 era it is very important to understand the dynamics of political communication via Web and Paul Rowinski's book is essential to understand the dynamics of political communication, particularly on social media. This book is a compass for orientation in a sea of fake news shaken by the waves of populism.” (Alessandro Scipione, journalist and geopolitical analyst at Agenzia Nova, Italian News Agency.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK
Paul Rowinski
About the author
Paul Rowinski is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. He worked for the regional, national and transnational press for two decades, including as a UK central European correspondent, writing for the Financial Times, The Independent, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The European. His research focuses on the discourse and political communication of Europe in the media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-Truth, Post-Press, Post-Europe
Book Subtitle: Euroscepticism and the Crisis of Political Communication
Authors: Paul Rowinski
Series Title: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55571-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55570-2Published: 21 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55573-3Published: 21 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55571-9Published: 20 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-5147
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5155
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 252
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Political Communication, Journalism, Social Sciences, general