Reporting the Road to Brexit International Media and the EU Referend
This edited collection brings together leading international scholars to explore the connection between Brexit and the media. The referendum and the activism on both sides of the campaign have been of significant interest to the media in the UK and around
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editors ANTHONY RIDGE - NEWMAN FERNANDO LEÓN - SOLÍS HUGH O ’ DONNELL
Reporting the Road to Brexit
Anthony Ridge-Newman Fernando León-Solís · Hugh O’Donnell Editors
Reporting the Road to Brexit International Media and the EU Referendum 2016
Editors Anthony Ridge-Newman Liverpool Hope University Liverpool, UK
Hugh O’Donnell Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow, UK
Fernando León-Solís University of the West of Scotland Paisley, UK
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Preface The decade since the global financial crisis has seen a number of major international events that could be argued to demonstrate a disruption to a period of relative continuity, which some consider to have been characterized by a growing globalized trajectory towards progressive ‘liberalism’ prior to 2008. From the global proliferation of new digital technologies to the election of President Trump in the USA, the public spheres of international media and politics seem somewhat transformed and indicative of, what some might call, a new age. Concerns have been voiced about regressive ‘populist’ political trends becoming more prevalent. Diversions from the status quo have given way to rapid change, uncertainty and, to some extent, episodes of social and economic volatility. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire
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