Habermas’s Public Sphere versus Trump’s Twittersphere

This article analyzes how Trump’s shrewd use of TV and Twitter in the 2016 election could manipulate “Rust Belt” workers who for thirty years had been marginalized in the neoliberal policy-making about globalization. It argues that Trump’s “Reality TV Presidency” could have been avoided, if global m...

The Journal of Communication and Media Studies

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