Amplifying Extremism
Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66875-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66875-0 (ISBN)
This Element on a politician's debut in the public eye showcases a novel approach to media corpus construction that combines proprietary and open databases, aggregated search tools, and targeted searching, and includes local, regional, and national news across digital-first, radio, news publishers, broadcast and cable television, and social media.
Within a week, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News' Ingraham Angle. This newly empowered politician, Darren Bailey, would go on to steer the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics, but the threats posed by small-town politicians have been overshadowed by national-level politicians. This microstudy of a single politician's debut in the public eye showcases a novel approach to media corpus construction that combines proprietary and open databases, aggregated search tools, and targeted searching, and includes local, regional, and national news across digital-first, radio, news publishers, broadcast and cable television, and social media. The Element provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.
Within a week, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News' Ingraham Angle. This newly empowered politician, Darren Bailey, would go on to steer the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics, but the threats posed by small-town politicians have been overshadowed by national-level politicians. This microstudy of a single politician's debut in the public eye showcases a novel approach to media corpus construction that combines proprietary and open databases, aggregated search tools, and targeted searching, and includes local, regional, and national news across digital-first, radio, news publishers, broadcast and cable television, and social media. The Element provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.
Introduction; 1. Theorizing extremist politicians and the democratic press; 2. Methodology: the case study corpus; 3. The context and structure for Illinois' political and media ecosystems; 4. The rise of Darren Bailey: PMP and the political economy of the news industry; 5. Journalists, new norms, and amplifying extremism; 6. Avoiding accidental amplification; References.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Elements in Politics and Communication |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 140 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-66875-7 / 1009668757 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-66875-0 / 9781009668750 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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