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Description
This book examines Canadian news content that references different terms related to fake news and disinformation while providing an analysis of Canadian journalists' views on how to report on fake news and its impact in today's society.
Disruptive Information in Canada presents a discussion on the public's discourses on disruptive information in relation to Canadian issues, as the majority of previous studies are limited to the US or European contexts. It offers unique insight into fake news reporting and discourses in Canada since it examines several main areas like news coverage, journalists' views, advertising, and trolling on social media.
This book offers a new theoretical conceptualization of our post-truth era by introducing the concept of “Disruptive Information” via focusing on news and social media content as well as journalists reporting on these issues. With the use of a mixed methods approach, it provides different insights into this important topic.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Canadian News Coverage of Disruptive Information
(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)
3. Manufacturing Disruptive Information by Fringe Canadian Journalism
(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)
4. Foreign Disruptive Information Campaigns Targeting Canada
(Ahmed Al-Rawi)
5. The Weaponizing of Disruptive Information in the Facebook Ads Targeting Canadians
(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Abdelrahman Fakida)
6. Canadian Polarized Public and Disruptive Information on Social Media
(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Devan Prithipaul)
7. Canadian Journalists' Insights on Disruptive Information
(Ahmed Al-Rawi and Joseph M. Nicolai)
8. Conclusion
References
Index
Product details

Published | 24 Jul 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9798765132524 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 6 bw illus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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An impressively comprehensive guide to understanding how disruptive information is deployed in both Canadian news media and online discourse. It's an essential text if one wants to make sense of this often disorienting age of disinformation and misinformation.
Adrian Harewood, Professor of Journalism, Carleton University, Canada
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Disruptive Information in Canada is an important book for critical technology scholars, political economists, journalists, and policy makers who want to understand the current state of misinformation, disinformation, and other disruptive information in a Canadian context. The book is thorough, well researched, and provides solid empirical evidence of the complex domestic and geo-political forces influencing the spread of disruptive information. Al-Rawi situates the challenges of disruptive information for Canada, showing that information operations interacts with each person's community, media exposure, and individual psychology to spread information that is detrimental to democratic engagement. A must read for anyone concerned about the health of democratic communication in this country.
Jaigris Hodson, Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest (Tier 2), Royal Roads University, Canada
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Confused, conflicted, feeling tricked? For years, Ahmed Al-Rawi has questioned how Canada's media system works and doesn't. Pulling together his wide-ranging research, his book introduces the novel concept of disruptive media to explore how successful media manipulation today leaves us less informed, as well as how the business of confusion is driving our contemporary media system.
Fenwick McKelvey, Associate Professor, Concordia University, Canada

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