Overview
- Focuses on three countries – China, Mexico and Russia – and their relationship with the USA
- Introduces the novel concept of post-deliberative public spheres
- Explores themes such as identity, patriotism and populism; democracy; power and responsibility
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This book offers a novel, grounded-theory approach to the study of online comments about Donald Trump and the USA in countries with a turbulent relation with America: China, Mexico and Russia.
Slavtcheva-Petkova advocates for a departure from Jürgen Habermas’s public sphere and democratic deliberative framework, introducing instead the concept of post-deliberative public spheres. The book provides a qualitative thematic analysis via the constant comparison method, coupled with quantitate content analysis of more than 2200 social media comments posted from Trump’s election in 2016 until July 2020. Three empirical chapters are devoted to the countries under study, showing how it is possible to map the comments onto a spectrum of authoritarianism/censored media to democracy/free media. Slavtcheva-Petkova argues that existence and strength of an underpinning ideology and the scope that ideology leaves for constructive political discussions online is of key importance, exploring themes such as identity, patriotism and populism; democracy; power and responsibility.
Timely and innovative, ‘Trump’s America Online’ astutely displays how post-deliberative public spheres are valuable spaces for political talk despite the challenges they face across the globe.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptualizing Online Comments from a Global Perspective
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Global Virtual Discussions About Trump and the USA
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova is a Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is the author of Global Journalism: An Introduction (with Professor Michael Bromley), Russia’s Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free and Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discussing Trump’s America Online
Book Subtitle: Digital Commenting in China, Mexico and Russia
Authors: Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18980-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18979-1Published: 04 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18982-1Published: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18980-7Published: 03 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 247
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Communication, Digital/New Media