Digital Demagogue - Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

Delves into new political-economic structures as expressed through political communication to explain the rise of authoritarian capitalism, nationalism and right-wing ideology throughout the world. Fuchs does this through updating Marxist theory and the Frankfurt School's critical theory. He re-invigorates the works on authoritarianism of Franz L. Neumann, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Wilhelm Reich, Leo Lèowenthal and Klaus Theweleit in the age of Trump and Twitter. In the age of big data and social media, Fuchs studies the expressions of ideology, nationalism and authoritarianism today and discusses prospects for overcoming capitalism and renewing the Left. --From publisher description.

About the author

Christian Fuchs is a leading critical theorist of communication and society. He is a Professor at the University of Westminster, co-editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, and the author of Digital Demagogue (Pluto, 2018) and Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2017) amongst other works.

Summary

A sharp intervention into Trumpology, Twitter and authoritarianism.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Fuchs, Fuchs Christian
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780745337968
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3796-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs)