The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News : Implications for American Democracy and the Republic Paperback / softback

Edited by Jim A. Kuypers

Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series

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Description

This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US historyâ€”the 2016 United States presidential election.

It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives including the rhetorical, social-scientific, communication studies, and media studies.

With eleven chapters grounded in hard evidence and communication theory, The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News: Implications for American Democracy and the Republic examines significant topics such as fake news, media construction of Hillary Clintonâ€™s and Donald Trumpâ€™s campaign personalities, media bias, visual meme depictions of the candidates, identity politics in the news, Trumpâ€™s Twitter use, entertainment news, and social media as news.

These chapters individually and collectively provide a direct commentary on the implications of the 2016 campaign news coverage for the future of the American Republic and political communication in the media.