Title Network propaganda : manipulation, disinformation, and radicalization in American politics / Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 462 pages) : illustrations Contents Mapping disorder. Epistemic crisis -- The architecture of our discontent -- The propaganda feedback loop -- Dynamics of network propaganda. Immigration and Islamophobia : Breitbart and the Trump Party -- The Fox diet -- Mainstream media failure modes and self-healing in a propaganda-rich environment -- The usual suspects. The propaganda pipeline : hacking the core from the periphery -- Are the Russians coming? -- Mammon's algorithm : marketing, manipulation, and clickbait on Facebook -- Can democracy survive the Internet?. Polarization in American politics -- The origins of asymmetry -- Can the Internet survive democracy? -- What can men do against such reckless hate? -- Conclusion Summary Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives. Network Propaganda challenges that received wisdom through the most comprehensive study yet published on media coverage of American presidential politics from the start of the election cycle in April 2015 to the one year anniversary of the Trump presidency. Analysing millions of news stories together with Twitter and Facebook shares, broadcast television and YouTube, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture of contemporary American political communications. Through data analysis and detailed qualitative case studies of coverage of immigration, Clinton scandals, and the Trump Russia investigation, the book finds that the right-wing media ecosystem operates fundamentally differently than the rest of the media environment. The authors argue that longstanding institutional, political, and cultural patterns in American politics interacted with technological change since the 1970s to create a propaganda feedback loop in American conservative media. This dynamic has marginalized centre-right media and politicians, radicalized the right wing ecosystem, and rendered it susceptible to propaganda efforts, foreign and domestic. For readers outside the United States, the book offers a new perspective and methods for diagnosing the sources of, and potential solutions for, the perceived global crisis of democratic politics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed November 14, 2022) SUBJECT USA Präsident gnd Subject Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016 Communication in politics -- United States Political campaigns -- United States Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States Social media -- Political aspects -- United States Internet in political campaigns -- United States Disinformation -- United States -- History -- 21st century Radicalism -- United States Political culture -- United States Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016 POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Communication in politics Disinformation Internet in political campaigns Mass media -- Political aspects Political campaigns Political culture Politics and government Presidents -- Election Radicalism Social media -- Political aspects Desinformation Einflussnahme Internet Massenmedien Politische Berichterstattung Politische Kommunikation Politische Kultur Präsidentenwahl Radikalisierung Social Media Wahlpropaganda Politics & government. Politics and Government. SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017 United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021 Subject United States USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Faris, Robert, author. Roberts, Hal (Harold), author. ISBN 9780190923662 0190923660 9780190923648 0190923644 9780190923655 0190923652

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