Algorithms and the End of Politics, How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life, How Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life

Author

Timcke; Scott

Year

2021

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-52921-531-1

Link

Last Update

25-Mar-2026

Keywords

Technology

Description

American politics has recently passed catastrophic equilibrium. On Twitter, Donald Trump performs his authoritarianism by labelling the news media as ‘the enemy of the American people’ (Trump, 2017a). Views like these are not to be lightly dismissed. As Trump proclaims, ‘more than 90% of Fake News Media coverage of me is negative’, and so, for him, ‘Social Media [is] the only way to get the truth out’ (Trump, 2017b). This manoeuvre is but one in a series of coordinated efforts by the Trump administration to routinely delegitimize media organizations like MSNBC and CNN to assert that he is the only...