SHARDED MEDIA

Trump's Rage Against the Mainstream
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-84785-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 143 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 321 g

is the story of how the unleashing of individual public opinion and rage became the most valuable of political currency. The digital’s sharding of experience through personal networks, platforms, recommendations and peer-linked sources, has splintered political awareness, experience and activity. Rage, resentment, hypocrisy, and a hyporeal, self-curated reality, have fractured the political landscape.

This book takes the rise of Donald J. Trump as both a symptom and a catalyst of this phenomenon, embodying the public's disenchantment with liberal democracy and its embrace of a more visceral, emotionally-driven politics. We consider how economic devastation wrought by global neoliberalism and zombie capitalism fuelled public rage against the mainstream, ending in a supreme yet odd coalition for Trump, with an elite which leveraged technology with anti-democratic sentiments to further its goals.

We show how the liberal mainstream news media (MSM) made facts and truth their USP, their core pitch for trust, in precisely the period when they became most elusive. It was the MSM that seduced a middle ground of America to believe that they were reality, pushing the to its margins, until the margins became the reality.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoskins, Andrew

Merrin, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Sharded Media.- Chapter 2: Donald Trump and the Sharding of the Real.- Chapter 3: The Pornographic Obscenity of Trump.- Chapter 4: The Rage of the People.- Chapter 5: The Rage of the Elite.- Chapter 6: Zombie Capitalism and the Rage of the Undead.

Über Autor(innen)

William Merrin is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Swansea University, UK. He is the author of: (Polity, 2018), (Routledge, 2014), and (Polity, 2005), and co-editor of (2019) and (Routledge, 2009). He is Co-Founding Editor of the Palgrave .

Andrew Hoskins is Professor of AI, Memory and War, at the University of Edinburgh, UK.He founded and edits the journals of, , and. He is the author/editor of 10 books, including  (Hurst/OUP 2022, with Matthew Ford) and  (OUP 2024, co-edited with Qi Wang).