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Poaching Politics

Online Communication During the 2016 US Presidential Election

by Paul Booth (Author) Amber Davisson (Author) Aaron Hess (Author) Ashley Hinck (Author)
©2018 Textbook XIV, 184 Pages

Summary

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as celebrities, to finding fan communities within the political spectrum, to joining others online in spreading (mis)information, the true influence in 2016 was the online participant.
Poaching Politics brings together research and scholars from media studies, political communication, and rhetoric to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the role of participatory cultures in shaping the 2016 US presidential election. Poaching Politics heralds a new way of creating and understanding shifts in the nature of political communication in the digital age.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the authors
  • About the book
  • Advance Praise for
  • This ebook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Affective Orientations and Digital Politics in a Networked Public Sphere
  • Part One
  • Chapter 2. The Trump Card: Playing Fandom in the US 2016 Election
  • Chapter 3. Fandom in Official Campaign Communication: Candidate Personae, Fan Voting Blocs, and Fan-Based Civic Arguments
  • Part Two
  • Chapter 4. Constituting the Deplorables
  • Chapter 5. Memeing Our Way to Reality: Trolling as Rhetorical Orientation
  • Conclusion: What to Do When Politics Has Been Poached
  • Index
  • Series Index

Paul Booth, Amber Davisson,
Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck

Poaching Politics

Online Communication
During the 2016 US
Presidential Election

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PETER LANG

New York • Bern • Berlin

Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw

Names: Booth, Paul, author. | Davisson, Amber L., author.

Hess, Aaron, author. | Hinck, Ashley, author.

Title: Poaching politics: online communication during the 2016 US presidential election / Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck.

Description: New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2018]

Series: Frontiers in political communication; volume 40 | ISSN 1525-9730 Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018022829 | ISBN 978-1-4331-5671-7 (hardback: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4331-5672-4 (pbk: alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4331-5673-1 (ebook pdf) ISBN 978-1-4331-5674-8 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-5675-5 (mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: Presidents—United States—Election—2016. | Political campaigns—United States. | Communication in politics—United States. | Political participation—Technological innovations--United States. | Communication in politics—Technological innovations—United States. | Internet in political campaigns—United States. | Internet—Political aspects—United States. | Mass media—Political aspects—United States. | Political culture—United States—

21st century. | United States—Politics and government—2009–2017. Classification: LCC JK526 2016 .B66 2018 | DDC 324.973/0932—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022829

DOI 10.3726/b13547

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About the authors

Paul Booth is Associate Professor at DePaul University. He is the author/ editor of 10 books, including Digital Fandom 2.0 (Peter Lang 2016), Game Play (2015), and the Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018).

Amber Davisson is Associate Professor of Communication at Keene State College. She is the author of Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (2013) and the co-editor of Controversies in Digital Ethics (2016) and Theorizing Digital Rhetoric (2018). Her interdisciplinary scholarship on identity, politics, and digital technology has appeared in several journals.

Aaron Hess is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Arizona State University. He is the co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: (2015) and the co-editor of Theorizing Digital Rhetoric (2018). His research trajectory follows two primary avenues: the active participatory elements of rhetorical advocacy and the exploration of digital contexts for rhetorical expression.

Ashley Hinck is Assistant Professor at Xavier University. Her work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Her book, Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World, will be published in Spring 2019.

About the book

The 2016 US election was ugly, divisive, maddening, and influential. In this provocative new book, Paul Booth, Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck explore the effect that everyday people had on the political process. From viewing candidates as celebrities, to finding fan communities within the political spectrum, to joining others online in spreading (mis)information, the true influence in 2016 was the online participant.

Poaching Politics brings together research and scholars from media studies, political communication, and rhetoric to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the role of participatory cultures in shaping the 2016 US presidential election. Poaching Politics heralds a new way of creating and understanding shifts in the nature of political communication in the digital age.

Advance Praise for

Poaching Politics

“If you want to understand what memes, gifs, and trolls mean for the modern political consciousness, read this book. Compelling, current, and fun to read, Poaching Politics explains how publics use media to be heard, to connect, and to effect change.”

—Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of Communication, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois-Chicago

“On November 9, 2016, America woke up from a bender. Fortunately, like a good friend or therapist, Poaching Politics helps us piece together what the hell happened. Smartly written and earnestly hopeful, this book examines a new kind of digital politics affecting our elections.”

—Lisa Ellen Silvestri, Author of Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone

“Scholars of political communication have long known of the complex interrelationships that exist between politics, popular culture, emotion, and power—these dimensions of our public life again came into stark relief during the 2016 US presidential campaign. So many Americans, so many around the world, asked themselves a very simple question on November 9, 2016: What just happened here?

Poaching Politics: Online Communication During the 2016 US Presidential Election offers a partial, and quite compelling, answer to this complex question. Using a wide range of both theory and criticism, drawing from a large literature in political communication and popular culture, the authors of Poaching Politics provide a fascinating and illuminating glimpse at some of the under-examined elements of contemporary political life emergent from the 2016 election. Not content to simply describe, and ever-aware of the public importance of their work, these insightful scholars teach us much about the 2016 campaign and about the future of political communication in an increasingly complex, fan-soaked, celebrity-fixated, trolling political culture in the United States and around the globe.”

—Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland

Poaching Politics provides a timely and much-needed examination of the unique political moment in which we currently find ourselves. Drawing on extensive work within fan studies and participatory culture, the authors do an excellent job of explaining how our political discourse became dominated by talk of Deplorables, trolls, memes, and the ‘alt-right.’ If you want to understand what online politics in the Trump era truly looks like, read this book.”

—Adrienne Massanari, University of Illinois at Chicago

This ebook can be cited

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Details

Pages
XIV, 184
Year
2018
ISBN (PDF)
9781433156731
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433156748
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433156755
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433156724
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433156717
DOI
10.3726/b13547
Language
English
Publication date
2019 (December)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2018. XIV, 184 pp., 3 b/w ill.

Biographical notes

Paul Booth (Author) Amber Davisson (Author) Aaron Hess (Author) Ashley Hinck (Author)

Paul Booth is Associate Professor at DePaul University. He is the author/editor of 10 books, including Digital Fandom 2.0 (Peter Lang 2016), Game Play (2015), and the Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018). Amber Davisson is Associate Professor of Communication at Keene State College. She is the author of Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (2013) and the co-editor of Controversies in Digital Ethics (2016) and Theorizing Digital Rhetoric (2018). Her interdisciplinary scholarship on identity, politics, and digital technology has appeared in several journals. Aaron Hess is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Arizona State University. He is the co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric (2015) and the co-editor of Theorizing Digital Rhetoric (2018). His research trajectory follows two primary avenues: the active participatory elements of rhetorical advocacy and the exploration of digital contexts for rhetorical expression. Ashley Hinck is Assistant Professor at Xavier University. Her work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals. Her book, Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World, will be published in Spring 2019.

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