Digital politics after Trump
Abstract
This essay offers a retrospective review of three major recent books in the field of digital politics – Andrew Chadwick’s The hybrid media system: Politics and power, Zizi Papacharissi’s Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics, and Daniel Kreiss’s Prototype politics: Technology-intensive campaigning and the data of democracy – in light of Donald J. Trump’s surprising 2016 electoral victory. Rather than critiquing these books for failing to predict Trump, the essay asks how the second editions of these books might differ if they were being written post-Trump. The central purpose of the essay is to think through how the research literature is likely to change in light of this major, disjunctive event.
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Reddit was a fundamental platform for the success of Donald Trump's political campaign.
“It was a fundamental platform for the success of Donald Trump’s political campaign23.”
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- Authors
- Karpf, D.
- Affiliations
- George Washington University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Karpf, David
- ORCID
- Karpf, David
- Venue
- Annals of the International Communication Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-04-03
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 198-207
- ISSN
- 2380-8977 (ISSN-L)
- 2380-8985
- OpenAlex
- W2605481556
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 17.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of the International Communication Association (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
- Keywords
- internet and politics, Donald Trump, 2016 US presidential election, hybrid media system, affective publics, political communication, social media and politics, research agenda
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