Manufacturing Dissent Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis Edited by Cornelia Ilie

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ilie, Cornelia, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 339

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication Studies.

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Local Subjects:

Communication Studies.

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 311 pages )

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics' (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive online and offline communication tactics, and conspiracy narratives, which end up disrupting community social cohesion. In addition to targeting manipulation-driven dissent across discourse genres through corpus-based investigations, a major strength of this volume consists in debunking manipulation while foregrounding compelling acts of counter-manipulation. The volume's breadth of topics, depth of analytical insights and range of methodological frameworks provide unique perspectives by capturing crisis-related manipulations across a worldwide political and cultural spectrum (Austria, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States), with a focus on the scale and extent of multifaceted repercussions. Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis, this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric, argumentation, media studies, social and political sciences. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Crisis manipulation / Cornelia Ilie

Chapter 1. Spanish influenza 1918/19 / Maria Stopfner

Chapter 2. Manipulation in exceptional times / Didier Maillat and Steve Oswald

Chapter 3. Manipulating citizens' beliefs and emotions / Cornelia Ilie

Chapter 4. Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis / Martina Berrocal

Chapter 5. The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation / Massimiliano Demata

Chapter 6. How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19? / Cristina Marinho and Michael Billig

Chapter 7. News media's epistemological framings of the Covid-19 'lab leak' hypothesis / Cedric Deschrijver

Chapter 8. Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic / Fabrizio Macagno and Ana Carolina Trevisan

Chapter 9. Lessons learned? / Ruth Breeze

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027248596

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.