Digital Demagogue - Christian Fuchs

Digital Demagogue

Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2018
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3798-2 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
An analytical intervention into Trumpology, Twitter and authoritarianism.
From 'Covfefe' to #FraudNewsCNN and #FakeNews, Donald Trump's tweets have caused an international frenzy. He is a reality TV and Twitter-President, who uses digital and entertainment culture as an ideological weapon - as an expression of his authoritarianism.



This book delves into new political-economic structures as expressed through political communication to explain the rise of authoritarian capitalism, nationalism and right-wing ideology throughout the world. Christian Fuchs does this through updating Marxist theory and the Frankfurt School's critical theory. He re-invigorates the works on authoritarianism of Franz L. Neumann, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Wilhelm Reich, Leo Lowenthal and Klaus Theweleit in the age of Trump and Twitter.



In the age of big data and social media, Digital Demagogue studies the expressions of ideology, nationalism and authoritarianism today and discusses prospects for overcoming capitalism and renewing the Left.

Christian Fuchs is a leading critical theorist of communication and society. He is a Professor at the University of Westminster, co-editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, and the author of Digital Demagogue (Pluto, 2018) and Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2017) amongst other works.

List of Figures


List of Tables


1. Introduction


2. Ideology, Nationalism and Fascism


3. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Authoritarian Capitalism


4. Trumpism: Donald Trump and Authoritarian-Capitalist Statism


5. Trumpology: Donald Trump’s Ideology


6. Trump and Twitter: Authoritarian-Capitalist Ideology on Social Media


7. Conclusion: Authoritarian Communicative Capitalism and its Alternatives


References


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 11 Halftones, black and white; 17 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Gewicht 578 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7453-3798-8 / 0745337988
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-3798-2 / 9780745337982
Zustand Neuware
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