| 书目名称 | Destructive Storytelling |
| 副标题 | Disinformation and t |
| 编辑 | Imke Henkel |
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| 概述 | Uses Critical Discourse Analysis to research the linguistic properties of false news stories.Examines the concept of the feisty Briton standing up against the European bully as a myth of national iden |
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| 描述 | .This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media. Using the notoriously false reporting of EU policies by the British press as a starting point, it utilises Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the linguistic properties of false news stories and to understand how they function as myth in Roland Barthes’ sense. The disinformation is essential for the impact these news stories had as it provides the simplification which creates the blissful clarity of myth that Barthes described. As myth, the false news stories depoliticised a political argument and naturalised the claim of antagonistic British-European relations. Henkel shows how news stories used disinformation to articulate a Eurosceptic myth of the feisty, witty Briton who stands up against the European bully. Her main argument is that the disinformation contributed to the Brexit vote because, as myth, it transported an ideology. Henkel argues that the Brexit debate and the news reporting that preceded it for decades can be understood as a case study for how political journalism becomes democratically dysfunctional. This book will be of inte |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); disinformation; misinformation; democratic function of media; Brexit; |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69503-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-69505-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-69503-3 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 |
发表于 2025-3-21 17:31:55
