Trump’s Media War

Catherine Happer is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK, and a member of the Glasgow Media Group. Andrew Hoskins is Interdisciplinary Research Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. William Merrin is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Swansea University, UK.

Part I: Killing the Media.- Weaponizing Reality: An Introduction to Trump's War on the Media.- Trump & the Press: A Murder-Suicide Pact.- Part II: Fake News.- Turning the Tables: How Trump Turned Fake News from a Weapon of Deception to a Weapon of Mass Destruction of Legitimate News.- Trump's War Against the Media, Fake News, and (A)Social Media.- The War of Images in the Age of Trump.- Part III: Reporting Trump: Building the Brand.- 'Authentic' Men and 'Angry' Women: Trump, Reality TV and Gendered Constructions of Business and Politics.- Covering Trump: Reflections from the Campaign Trail and the Challenge for Journalism.- The Scottish provenance of Trump's approach to the media.- Part IV: The Politics of Performance.- The Donald: Media, Celebrity, Authenticity and Accountability.- The Big Standoff: Trump's Handshakes and the Limits of News Values.- "Classic Theatre" As Media Against Trump: Imagining Chekhov.- Trump and Satire: America's Carnivalesque President and his War on Television Comedians.- Part V: Media Out of the Margins.- President Troll: Trump, 4Chan and Memetic Warfare.- Trump, the First Facebook President: Why Politicians Need Our Data Too .- Trump's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Conspiratorialism in the Arab Media Sphere.