Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics Audiobook (Free)

Is social networking destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or ‘Fake information’ entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our feeling of a distributed reality? A typical wisdom has surfaced since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new systems and their manipulation by international actors played a decisive function in his triumph and are in charge of the sense of the ‘post-truth’ moment where disinformation and propaganda thrives.

Network Propaganda issues that received knowledge through the most about Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics in depth study yet published on press coverage of American presidential politics right away of the election routine in Apr 2015 to the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency. Analyzing millions of news stories as well as Twitter and Facebook stocks, broadcast tv and YouTube, the book provides a comprehensive summary of the architecture of modern American political communications. Through data evaluation and detailed qualitative case research of insurance of immigration, Clinton scandals, as well as the Trump Russia investigation, the book discovers that this right-wing press ecosystem operates fundamentally in different ways than the remaining 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 provides marginalized centre-right mass media and politicians, radicalized the proper wing ecosystem, and rendered it susceptible to propaganda attempts, foreign and local. For listeners outside the USA, the book offers a new perspective and options for diagnosing the sources of, and potential solutions for, the perceived global problems of democratic politics.