Philip Seargeant
List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip Seargeant plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 5. 🍊🍊🍊: Political influencers as flashpoints for manufactured online aggression Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 128–147 | Chapter
In the context of the literature on practices of social media influencers, little attention has been paid, so far, to the emerging category of political influencers. This chapter examines the social media feed of a political influencer as a site of antagonistic political debate generating… read more
2022 Chapter 9. Complementary concepts of disinformation: Conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’ Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 193–214 | Chapter
This chapter looks at the relationship between two distinct but related forms of disinformation currently widespread in political discourse: ‘fake news’ and conspiracy theories. Both play a significant role in the promotion and circulation of forms of false information which are considered by… read more