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Destructive Storytelling = Disinformation and the Eurosceptic Myth that Shaped Brexit /

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Title/Author:	Destructive Storytelling/ by Imke Henkel.
Reminder of title:	Disinformation and the Eurosceptic Myth that Shaped Brexit /
Author:	Henkel, Imke.
Description:	IX, 197 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69503-3
ISBN:	9783030695033

Destructive Storytelling = Disinformation and the Eurosceptic Myth that Shaped Brexit /
Henkel, Imke.

Destructive StorytellingDisinformation and the Eurosceptic Myth that Shaped Brexit /[electronic resource] :by Imke Henkel. - 1st ed. 2021. - IX, 197 p.online resource.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Euromyths -- Chapter 3: News Stories as Narrations and as Myths -- Chapter 4: The Myths of British Superiority and European Silliness -- Chapter 5: Eurosceptic Ideology -- Chapter 6: Disinformation and Narratives -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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 interest to students and scholars of journalism, media and culture, political communication, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Imke Henkel is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is a former political journalist who wrote for top German national newspapers including Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit, as well as being the UK and Ireland correspondent for the German news magazine Focus for ten years. Her research focuses, among other topics, on how the British media report European issues.

ISBN: 9783030695033

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-69503-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.

LC Class. No.: P1-1091

Dewey Class. No.: 410

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