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.

• | Author: Michael Mario Albrecht
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1501364863
• | ISBN-13: 9781501364860