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.

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.