{"product_id":"9783031847851","title":"SHARDED MEDIA: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSHARDED MEDIA: Trump’s Rage Against the Mainstream\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMerrin, William; Hoskins, Andrew\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSharded Media\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how the unleashing of individual public opinion and rage became the most valuable of political currency. The digital’s sharding of experience through personal networks, platforms, recommendations and peer-linked sources, has splintered political awareness, experience and activity. Rage, resentment, hypocrisy, and a hyporeal, self-curated reality, have fractured the political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book takes the rise of Donald J. Trump as both a symptom and a catalyst of this phenomenon, embodying the public's disenchantment with liberal democracy and its embrace of a more visceral, emotionally-driven politics. We consider how economic devastation wrought by global neoliberalism and zombie capitalism fuelled public rage against the mainstream, ending in a supreme yet odd coalition for Trump, with an elite which leveraged technology with anti-democratic sentiments to further its goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe show how the liberal mainstream news media (MSM) made facts and truth their USP, their core pitch for trust, in precisely the period when they became most elusive. It was the MSM that seduced a middle ground of America to believe that they were reality, pushing the \u003cem\u003edeplorables\u003c\/em\u003e to its margins, until the margins became the reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-02-22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031847851\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-84786-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 143\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666489565324,"sku":"9783031847851","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031847851.jpg?v=1776097102","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783031847851","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}