This second edition explores the relationship between politics and media, with a particular emphasis on the significant disruptive changes to media and technology that have faced journalists, campaigners, and the public in recent years. The first edition, in 2014, described the earliest elements of social and online media: Web 2.0, the information economy, and the changes from traditional broadcast media to the early online world. With the rise of TikTok, the fake news claims of Donald Trump, the decline of local news, and the anti-democratic impulses that drove the January 6, 2021 coup attempts, the last decade has provided a rich and sometimes confounding set of disruptions to political communication that deserve attention. Technology has disrupted political communication in the online environment exceptionally quickly over the last decade, and this book provides a framework for understanding the intersections of these disruptions and their effect on an already-fragile democratic circumstance in the United States.
Chapter 1: The Disrupting of Mobile Communication.- Part One: Mobile
Digital Technology Disrupts the News Media Industry.
Chapter 2: Disrupting
Journalism.
Chapter 3: Information Literacy In a Mobile World.- Part 2:
Digital Mobile Media Disrupts Consumption of News.
Chapter 4: Fake news in
a mobile world.
Chapter 5: News Deserts.- Part 3: Digital Mobile Technology
Disruption of Electioneering.
Chapter 6: A New World of Campaigning.-
Chapter 7: Polarizing Media, Polarizing Politics.- Part 4: Digital Mobile
Media Disrupting Democracy.
Chapter 8: Negative Partisanship.
Chapter 9:
The Media and the American Voter.
Chapman Rackaway is Chair and Professor of Political Science at Radford University, USA.
