1st Edition

Celebrity 'Outsider' Politicians in the Digital Realm Donald Trump's Online Charismatic Authority

By Mark Wheeler Copyright 2027
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

Celebrity 'Outsider' Politicians in the Digital Realm: Donald Trump's Online Charismatic Authority considers Trump’s impact on elite level behaviour by analysing how his extremist online political discourses shape communications outputs. Celebrity ‘outsider’ politicians like Donald Trump command credibility by establishing themselves through a conjunction of deinstitutionalization,... Read more

Introduction.  Chapter 1 - Celebrity, Digital Democracy and the public sphere  Chapter 2: The Celebritization of American Politics and online campaigning in the modern US Polity - methodologies and context  Chapter 3: The Social Media Presidency and as a Political Outsider  Chapter 4: Political marketing and advertising in the digital domain- The 2024 Presidential campaign case study  Chapter 5: Donald Trump 2.0, Elon Musk, Podcasters and Social Media News Influencers - The political content of the Postmodern Celebrity Outsider Presidency  Chapter 6: Celebrity Politicians, political efficacy and the democratic deficit Introduction  Chapter 7: Post-script  Bibliography

Biography

Mark Wheeler is an Emeritus Professor of Political Communications, London Metropolitan University.