The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

1. The Various Dimensions of Disinformation: An Introduction

Part I: Genres and methodologies

2. The Expression of Bias in (Online) Newspaper Headlines

3. Critical Discourse Analysis Approaches to Investigating Fake News and Disinformation

4. Introducing Digital Source Criticism: A Method for Tackling Fake News and Disinformation

5. A Model for Understanding and Assessing Semi-Fake Scientific News Reporting

6. Misinformation Detection in News Text: Automatic Methods and Data Limitations

7. Fakespeak in 280 Characters: Exploring the Language of Disinformation on Twitter through a Comparative Corpus-based Approach

8. Debunking Fake News through the Multimodal Composition of Internet Memes

9. "It's never about #ProLife, it's about punishment, hate, and religious repression." Polarising Discourses and Disinformation in the Abortion Debate on Twitter

10. Investigating the Language of Fake News across Cultures

Part II: Case studies

A. Politics

11. Disinformation and Immigration Discourses

12. Brexit and Disinformation

13. New Dogs, Old Tricks. A Corpus-Assisted Study of the 'Art' of Delegitimisation in Modern Spoken Political Discourse

14. The Military's Approach to the Information Environment

15. Attitudes about Propaganda and Disinformation: Identifying Discursive Personae in YouTube Comment Sections

16. Citizens' Perspectives on the News Media and Democracy: a Citizens' Panel Case Study from Wales

B. Society

17. (Dis)information and Ethical Guidelines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting on Violence against Women

18. Online Gendered and Sexualised Disinformation against Women in Politics

19. The Rainbow Conspiracy: A Corpus-Based Social Media Analysis of Anti-LGBTIQ+ Rhetoric in Digital Landscapes

20. The Discourses of Climate Change Denialism across Conspiracy and Pseudoscience Websites

21. Reframing of Fake in Art Discourse

C. Medical discourses

22. Exploring Health-related Misinformation, Disinformation and "Fake News"

23. The COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter: Dialogic Contraction within the Echo Chambers

24. COVID-19 Parody Fake Voice Messages on WhatsApp

25. The Impact of Covid-19 Reports on Multicultural Young People's Social and Psychological Well-Being: Novel Experiential Metaphors in an ELF-Mediated Debate on Fake News

26. Mapping Polylogical Discourse to Understand (Dis)Information Negotiation: The Case of the UK Events Research Programme

Index