Part I.Crisis-driven and context-related manipulation practices

Chapter 1.Spanish influenza 1918/19: A diachronic and cross-cultural perspective on blame and blame-avoidance in media and politics in times of crisis

Maria Stopfner

Chapter 2.Manipulation in exceptional times: Exploiting overwhelming contextual parameters for manipulative purposes

Didier Maillat

Steve Oswald

Chapter 3.Manipulating citizens’ beliefs and emotions: Consensus-seeking and dissensus-generating tactics in crisis management

Cornelia Ilie

Chapter 4.Maintaining political authority and credibility during
the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Czech government press conferences

Martina Berrocal

Chapter 5.The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation: The case of climate lockdowns

Massimiliano Demata

Part II.Discursively and argumentatively framed counter-manipulation strategies

Chapter 6.How can governments be prevented from manipulating
statistics about Covid-19? An example from UK politics

Cristina Marinho

Michael Billig

Chapter 7.News media’s epistemological framings of the Covid-19 ‘lab
leak’ hypothesis: A contrastive metapragmatic analysis of ‘conspiracy theory’

Cedric Deschrijver

Chapter 8.Strategic communication in the Covid-19 pandemic: Uses of arguments and manipulative tactics in institutional social media communication

Fabrizio Macagno

Ana Carolina Trevisan

Chapter 9.Lessons learned? The role of conventional arguments in avoiding blame and rebuilding trust in banking after the financial crisis

Ruth Breeze

Index

Table of contents

Part I.Crisis-driven and context-related manipulation practices

Part II.Discursively and argumentatively framed counter-manipulation strategies