{"id":183,"date":"2016-11-18T00:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:31:01","slug":"social-media-did-not-give-us-donald-trump-and-it-is-not-weakening-democracy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/social-media-did-not-give-us-donald-trump-and-it-is-not-weakening-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media did not give us Donald Trump and it is not weakening democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row \"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-xs-12 col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dan_Kreiss-bw-300x300.png\" alt=\"dan_kreiss-bw\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dan_Kreiss-bw-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dan_Kreiss-bw-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dan_Kreiss-bw-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Dan_Kreiss-bw.png 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ProfileText6\">\n<p class=\"BIO\"><strong><span class=\"CharOverride-35\">Dr Daniel Kreiss<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><em>Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Prototype Politics<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><span class=\"EMAIL\">Email: dkreiss@email.unc.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-296x300.png\" alt=\"US2016 - Section 6\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-768x779.png 768w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-1010x1024.png 1010w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-6.png 1018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"CampaignQuote6\">Section 6: Digital Campaign<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-179\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/did-russia-just-hand-donald-trump-the-presidency\/\">Did Russia just hand Donald Trump the Presidency?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-181\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/taking-julian-assange-seriously-considering-wikileaks-role-in-the-us-presidential-campaign\/\">Taking Julian Assange seriously: considering WikiLeaks\u2019 role in the US presidential campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-185\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/trump-and-the-triumph-of-affective-news-when-everyone-is-the-media\/\">Trump and the triumph of affective news when everyone is the media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-187\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/tweeting-the-election-political-journalists-and-a-new-privilege-of-bias\/\">Tweeting the election: political journalists and a new privilege of bias?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-189\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/the-dissolution-of-news-selective-exposure-filter-bubbles-and-the-boundaries-of-journalism\/\">The dissolution of news: selective exposure, filter bubbles, and the boundaries of journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-191\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/fighting-the-red-feed-and-the-blue-feed\/\">Fighting the red feed and the blue feed<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-193\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/two-tribes-go-to-vote-symbolism-on-election-day\/\">Two tribes go to vote: symbolism on election day<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-195\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/ideas-are-for-sharing\/\">Ideas are for sharing<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-197\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/in-the-age-of-social-media-voters-still-need-journalists\/\">In the age of social media, voters still need journalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-199\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/dark-magic-the-memes-that-made-donald-trumps-victory\/\">Dark magic: the memes that made Donald Trump\u2019s victory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-xs-12 col-sm-9\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">During and after the 2016 US presidential election, a number of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/03\/technology\/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">commentators<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/tow_center\/facebook_zuckerberg_trump_election.php\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">media<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and scholars of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10584609.2016.1224416?needAccess=true\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">political communication<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2016\/11\/has-election-2016-been-a-turning-point-for-the-influence-of-the-news-media\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">journalism<\/span><\/a>\u00a0embraced the notion that the ascent of president-elect Donald Trump as the Republican nominee was, at least in significant part, the product of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/11\/08\/500686320\/did-social-media-ruin-election-2016\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">social media<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and media change\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2016\/11\/has-election-2016-been-a-turning-point-for-the-influence-of-the-news-media\/\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">more broadly<\/span><\/a>. Even more broadly, commentators tell us that Trump was successful because the Internet has brought about a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/03\/technology\/how-the-internet-is-loosening-our-grip-on-the-truth.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">\u201cpost fact\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/24\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/the-age-of-post-truth-politics.html?_r=0\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">\u201cpost truth\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0era, and point to \u201cfilter bubbles\u201d as a significant factor in his rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">As illuminating as these accounts sometimes are, they fundamentally ignore larger historical, cultural, and institutional factors that have created the context for Trump\u2019s rise, especially the precipitous decline in citizen trust in government, professional journalism, and scientific expertise and the growing political importance of the white nationalist right in the United States. Attributing Donald Trump\u2019s electoral success exclusively, or even primarily, to media and technological change is to dangerously abstract from the conditions that made it possible, even as new t<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">echnologies have undoubtedly proved tactically effective for the candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">It is worth remembering that there have long been various strains of conservative movements that have embraced an amalgam of paranoid conspiracy theories, denied the existence of basic facts, adopted an anti-institutions posture, distrusted expertise, and embraced the uncompromising, anti-pragmatic politics stance that many commentators and academics see in Trump\u2019s rise. In the 1950s, the historian Richard Hofstadter called this the\u00a0<span class=\"Hyperlink\">\u201cparanoid style of American politics,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0which was fueled by feelings of victimhood and nostalgia, the fear of political breakdown, status insecurity, and a persistent irrational fear of global conspiracy. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10488.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">historian Lisa McGirr<\/span><\/a>\u00a0traces the history of the New Right since the 1960s among affluent and suburban Sun Belt men and women, who combined a religious emphasis on Protestant moral values with themes of anti-communism and small government, deregulation, and anti-union and public employee sentiment, all of which were driven by conspiracy theories propagated in right wing films, study groups, books, newsletters, and national media outlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">Throughout this history, the Republican Party has been the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gods-Own-Party-Making-Christian\/dp\/0199929068\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">institutional vehicle<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for these right wing movements, providing them with the infrastructure to engage in electoral politics and advance their policy aims. Political communication scholars have, ironically, not done a very good job studying ideas, favoring instead studies of their strategic presentation, what we call \u2018frames\u2019. But it is precisely ideas of religious purity, small government, and racial difference that lie at the heart of the conservative identity that has defined the Republican Party for four decades, although the expression of these ideas takes various forms. Decades of conservative movement identity work, in our own time through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/perspectives-on-politics\/article\/the-tea-party-and-the-remaking-of-republican-conservatism\/BDF68005B52758A48F7EC07086C3788C\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">conservative media infrastructure<\/span><\/a>\u00a0such as FOX news, has helped usher in the broad anti-institutional movement style of the right and the motivated reasoning that has shaped conservative views on everything from the\u00a0<span class=\"Hyperlink\">denial of climate change<\/span>\u00a0to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hij.sagepub.com\/content\/9\/2\/60.short\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">distrust<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abs.sagepub.com\/content\/54\/1\/8.short\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">legacy journalism<\/span><\/a>. Meanwhile, the moral narratives of good hard working white Americans who are being taken advantage of by government bureaucrats, illegal immigrants, and the liberal elite on FOX News and in the rhetoric of the Republican Party\u2019s candidates that Arlie Russell Hochschild\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=L1gjjwEACAAJ&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Arlie+Russell+Hochschild%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi8q5nIxo_QAhXi6IMKHWffDxoQ6AEISzAI\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">documents in her fieldwork<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on the Tea Party, and that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/P\/bo22879533.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">fuels the resentment Katherine Cramer<\/span><\/a>\u00a0documents, laid the groundwork for the white identity politics behind Trump\u2019s run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">The internet did not bring about a \u2018post-fact\u2019 or \u2018post truth\u2019 era, nor did it bring about conspiracy theories, white nationalism, conservative identity and its farcical villains, and the distrust of institutionalized ways of producing knowledge, from journalism to science. Conservative movements since the post World War II era did, alongside its institutional vehicle, the Republican Party, and its media apparatus, from conservative radio talk shows to FOX News. The uptake of social media likely has given broader exposure to the particular mix of racial resentment, conservative identity, populist rhetoric, and economic anxiousness that marked the 2016 US presidential election and afforded it greater visibility, but it did not cause them. The emergence of outlets such as Brietbart, primarily distributed through Facebook, and Trump\u2019s Twitter rantings might have legitimated dispensing with the dog whistle in favor of a racial bullhorn, but the underlying idea that white Americans are under a unique threat from people of color, elites, and experts resonates with millions who have been told that for decades by members of the Republican Party. And, while social media might increase the speed of half-truths, rumors, and outright lies, it did not create the cynical public that does not understand, or care to, how knowledge producing institutions work. Conserva<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">tive movements and the Republican Party did that too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Social media did not give us Donald Trump and it is not weakening democracy - US Election Analysis 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-6-internet\/social-media-did-not-give-us-donald-trump-and-it-is-not-weakening-democracy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social media did not give us Donald Trump and it is not weakening democracy - 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