Trumping the Media - Politics and Democracy in the Post-Truth Era

In Trumping the Media , Michael Mario Albrecht examines the ways that shifts in the landscapes of popular culture, political culture, and media technologies since the 1980s enabled a polarizing political figure such as Donald Trump to engage those conditions and to exploit their logic for personal and political gain. Albrecht investigates how those shifts have reconfigured the ways people engage politics, the relationship between celebrities, politicians and their audiences, the relationship between entertainment and politics, and ultimately the very notion of truth and facts. He demonstrates that rather than being a political anomaly, Trump is the logical extension and exemplar of the shifts in media, culture, and politics that have transpired in the last 35 years.>

Product details

• Authors: Michael Mario Albrecht, Albrecht Michael Mario Albrecht
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781501364860
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-6486-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Press & journalism, Politics & government, Politics and government, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, News media and journalism