Hacking Hybrid Media
Power and Practice in an Age of Manipulation
Description:... "The contemporary public sphere is rife with problematic information, but on what terms are manipulators able to garner attention in the hybrid media system? Focusing on the messaging strategies employed by Donald Trump and his most vocal online supporters, Hacking Hybrid Media provides a theoretically oriented and empirically grounded analysis of the ways today's media afford deceptive political communication. From the structures of social media platforms to the practices of political actors, Stephen R. Barnard offers a critical appraisal of media power and the capital required to wield it. Bringing the study of propaganda and media manipulation in conversation with literatures on media power and practice, this book examines how networked media capital is changing the fields of politics and journalism"--
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