Communication in the Age of Trump

Arthur S. Hayes is an associate professor at Fordham University in New York. He holds a J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law, and before joining academia, he worked as a journalist for several news outlets, including the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America and Sympathy for the Cyberbully: How the Crusade to Censor Hostile and Offensive Online Speech Abuses Freedom of Expression.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. Kennedy was dubbed the first TV president. Ronald Reagan, the so-called Great Communicator, had a conversational way of speaking to the common man. Bill Clinton left his mark on media industries by championing and signing the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. Barack Obama was the first social media presidential campaigner and president. And now there is President Donald J. Trump.

Because so much of what has made Donald Trump's candidacy and presidency unconventional has been about communication-how he has used Twitter to convey his political messages and how the news media and voters have interpreted and responded to his public words and persona-21 communication and media scholars examine the Trump phenomenon in Communication in the Age of Trump. This collection of essays and studies, suitable for communication and political science students and scholars, covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency.

This collection of essays and studies covers the 2016 presidential campaign and the first year of the Trump presidency and is suitable for communication and political science students and scholars.

List of Figures - List of Tables - Arthur S. Hayes: Introduction - Part I. Blurred Lines: When Reality TV Becomes Political Reality - June Deery: American Idol: Trump's Administration and Reality TV - Sara S. Hansen/She-Yueh Lee: Young Viewers Turned Voters-How "Wishing to Be Trump" and Other Parasocial Effects From Watching The Apprentice Predict Likeability, Trust, and Support for a Celebrity President - Part II: Campaign and Presidential Rhetoric - Mira Sotirovic/Christopher Benson: Donald Trump "Tells You What He Thinks" - Jason Turcotte: "Enemies of the people": Elites, Attacks, and News Trust in the Era of Trump - Part III: Assessing News Media Performance - Victor Pickard: American Media and the Rise of Trump - Mitchell T. Bard: From Fox News to Fake News: An Anatomy of the Top 20 Fake News Stories on Facebook Before the 2016 Election - Laurel Leff: We've Got Mail (But Probably Shouldn't): The Press, WikiLeaks, and Democratic Disclosures in the 2016 Election - Dianne Bystrom/Kimberly Nelson: The Media Was the Message: Gendered Coverage of Hillary Clinton's Historic 2016 Campaign for U.S. President - Melissa A. Johnson/Héctor Rendón: Goodbye Neighbor: Mexican News Coverage of the Trump Wall and U.S. Immigration Proposals - Nataliya Roman/John H. Parmelee: A "Political Novice" vs. the "Queen of War": How State-Sponsored Media Framed the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign - Beth Knobel: "Judicious Skepticism": Fact-Checking Trump - Arthur S. Hayes: Trump, the Press Critic: Unethical and Ineffective - Part IV: Why Twitter and Facebook May Never Be The Same - Flora Khoo/William Brown: Tweeting the Election: Comparative Uses of Twitter by Trump and Clinton in the 2016 Election - Jeffrey Delbert: The Commander in Tweets: President Trump's Use of Twitter to Defend - Tao Fu/ William A. Babcock: Are Algorithms Media Ethics Watchdogs? An Examination of Social Media Data for News - Arthur S. Hayes: Emerging Free Speech and Social Media Law and Policy in the Age of Trump - Contributors - Index.