Introduction

1. Media Dis/Misinformation and Populism

Part 1 KEY CONCEPTS
2. What do we mean by populism?

3. Misinformation and Disinformation

4. Rethinking Mediatisation: Populism and the Mediatisation of Politics

5. Media Systems and Misinformation

6. Rewired Propaganda: Propaganda, Misinformation, and Populism in the Digital Age

7. Hate propaganda

8. Filter bubbles and digital echo chambers

9. Disputes over or against reality? Fine-graining the textures of post-truth politics

10. Fake News

PART 2 MEDIA MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION

11. The Evolution of Computational Propaganda: Theories, Debates, and Innovation of the Russian Model

12. Polarisation and Misinformation

13. Data Journalism and Misinformation

14. Media and the "Alt-Right"

15. ‘Listen to your gut’: How Fox News’ Populist Style Changed the American Public Sphere and Journalistic Truth in the Process

16. Alternative media: challenging or exacerbating populism and mis/disinformation?

17. Online harassment of journalists as a consequence of populism, mis/disinformation, and impunity

18. Lessons from an extraordinary year: Four heuristics for studying mediated misinformation in 2020 and beyond

19. Right-wing Populism, Visual Disinformation, and Brexit: From the UKIP ‘Breaking Point’ poster to the aftermath of the London Westminster Bridge Attack

Part 3 THE POLITICS OF MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION

20. Misogyny and the politics of misinformation

21. Anti-immigration disinformation

22. Science and the politics of misinformation

23. Government Disinformation in war and conflict

24. Military Disinformation: A bodyguard of lies

25. Extreme right and mis/disinformation

26. Information disorder practices in/by contemporary Russia

27. Protest, Activism, and False Information

28. Conspiracy theories: Misinformed publics or wittingly believing "false" information?

29. Corrupted Infrastructures of Meaning: Post-truth Identities Online

30. Consumption of Misinformation and Disinformation

PART 4 MEDIA AND POPULISM

31. Populism in Africa: Personalistic Leaders and the Illusion of Representation

32. Populism and misinformation from the American Revolution to the 21st-century United States

33. Populism, Media, and Misinformation in Latin America

34. Perceived Mis- and Disinformation in a Post-Factual Information Setting: A Conceptualization and Evidence from ten European Countries

35. The Role of Social Media in the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Finland

36. Social Media Manipulation in Turkey: Actors, Tactics, Targets

37. Populist rhetoric and media misinformation in the 2016 UK Brexit referendum

38. Media policy failures and the emergence of right-wing populism

39. Disentangling Polarization and Civic Empowerment in the Digital Age: The Role of Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers in the Rise of Populism

Part 5 RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION AND POPULISM

40. Legal and regulatory responses to misinformation and populism

41. Global responses to misinformation and populism

42. Singapore’s fake news law: Countering populists’ falsehoods and truth-making

43. Debunking Misinformation

44. News Literacy and Misinformation

45. Media and Information Literacies as a Response to Misinformation and Populism

46. People-Powered Correction: Fixing Misinformation on Social Media

47. Countering Hate speech

48. Constructing digital counter-narratives as a response to disinformation and populism

49. Journalistic responses to misinformation

50. Responses to Mis/Disinformation: Practitioner Experiences and Approaches in Resource Poor Settings

51. The Effect of Corrections and Corrected Misinformation

52. Building Connective Democracy: Interdisciplinary Solutions to the Problem of Polarisation