Manufacturing dissent manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis edited by Cornelia Ilie

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ilie, Cornelia.

Series:

Pragmatics and beyond New Series vol. 339

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political psychology--Case studies.

Political psychology.

Manipulative behavior--Political aspects.

Manipulative behavior.

Fake news--Case studies.

Fake news.

Mass media and propaganda--Case studies.

Mass media and propaganda.

Crisis management in government--Case studies.

Crisis management in government.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023, in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

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"--Back cover.

Contents:

日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014

Table of contents

Crisis manipulation

Part I. Crisis-driven and context-related manipulation practices

Chapter 1. Spanish influenza 1918/19

Chapter 2. Manipulation in exceptional times

Chapter 3. Manipulating citizens’ beliefs and emotions

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

Chapter 5. The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation

Part II. Discursively and argumentatively framed counter-manipulation strategies

Chapter 6. How can governments be prevented from manipulating statistics about Covid-19?

Chapter 7. News media’s epistemological framings of the Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ hypothesis

Chapter 8. Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic

Chapter 9. Lessons learned?

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Ilie, Cornelia Manufacturing Dissent

ISBN:

9789027248596

OCLC:

1416748679