Trump's Media War

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Happer, Catherine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hoskins, Andrew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Merrin, William (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Communication.; Political communication.; United States-Politics and government.; Journalism.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.; Media and Communication.; Political Communication.; US Politics.

The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping. Like the vote for Brexit in the UK, there seemed to be a new de-synchronicity - a huge reality gap - between the unfolding of history and the mainstream news media's interpretations of and reporting of conte...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Killing the Media
• Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump's War on the Media
• Trump & the Press: A Murder-Suicide Pact
• Part II: Fake News
• Turning the Tables: How Trump Turned Fake News from a Weapon of Deception to a Weapon of Mass Destruction of Legitimate News
• Trump's War Against the Media, Fake News, and (A)Social Media
• The War of Images in the Age of Trump
• Part III: Reporting Trump: Building the Brand
• 'Authentic' Men and 'Angry' Women: Trump, Reality TV and Gendered Constructions of Business and Politics
• Covering Trump: Reflections from the Campaign Trail and the Challenge for Journalism
• The Scottish provenance of Trump's approach to the media
• Part IV: The Politics of Performance
• The Donald: Media, Celebrity, Authenticity and Accountability
• The Big Standoff: Trump's Handshakes and the Limits of News Values
• "Classic Theatre" As Media Against Trump: Imagining Chekhov
• Trump and Satire: America's Carnivalesque President and his War on Television Comedians
• Part V: Media Out of the Margins
• President Troll: Trump, 4Chan and Memetic Warfare
• Trump, the First Facebook President: Why Politicians Need Our Data Too
• Trump's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere.