Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy

by Claire Bond Potter

Book Overview

A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed -- and fractured -- American politics With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it's easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In Political Junkies , historian Claire Bond Potter shows otherwise, revealing the roots of today's dysfunction by situating online politics in a longer history of alternative political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541644999
• ISBN13: 9781541644991
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"