The media and January 6th / edited by Khadijah Costley White, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C. McGregor and Rebekah Tromble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Costley White, Khadijah, editor.

Kreiss, Daniel, editor.

McGregor, Shannon C., editor.

Tromble, Rebekah, editor.

Series:

Journalism and political communication unbound.

Oxford scholarship online.

Journalism and political communication unbound

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021--Press coverage.

Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Political violence--Washington (D.C.)--History--21st century.

Political violence.

Riots--Washington (D.C.)--History--21st century.

Riots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The images cast across the US on January 6, 2021, laid bare the fragility of American democracy as the steps & halls of the US Capitol were inundated by a violent band of insurrectionists. Fed by blatant lies, political anger, & racial animus, they sought to halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution & to overturn a freely & fairly run election. Meanwhile, efforts to obstruct, avoid, & misrepresent the subsequent investigation of the January 6th attack have continued apace. With a relative dearth of work that centres historical & contemporary racial, ethnic, & power dynamics in the context of media, our interdisciplinary field was caught flat-footed, unprepared to respond to those who actively seek to undermine American democracy. This edited volume brings together a diverse group of leading scholars to help us more clearly understand the relationship between media & the attempted coup.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Media and January 6th

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

1. Understanding Media's Role in January 6, 2021

PART I HOW SHOULD WE UNDERSTAND JANUARY 6, 2021?

2. It Was an Attempted Coup: The Cline Center's Coup d'État Project Categorizes the January 6, 2021, Assault on the U.S. Capitol

3. What January 6th Was Not

4. Remembering January 6th: An Insurrection, the Media, and the Shadow of the Tea Party

5. "Stop the Steal" and the Racial Legacy of Election Disinformation

6. "Fake and Fraudulent" vs. "An American Right": Competing Imaginaries of the Vote in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign

7. The Changing American Racial Landscape and January 6th

8. Asymmetrical Identity-​Driven Wrongness in American Politics

9. January 6th as Logical Extension of Conservative Populism

10. Antidemocratic Publics: The January 6th Mob and Digital Organizing

11. The Ordinary Insurrection: January 6 and the Mainstreaming of Political Violence

12. The Antidemocratic Feedback Loop: Right-​Wing Media Responses to January 6

PART II WHAT SHOULD RESEARCH LOOK LIKE AFTER JANUARY 6, 2021? HOW CAN WE PREVENT ANOTHER JANUARY 6, 2021?

13. Online Data and the Insurrection

14. What Can "We" Do? Reflections on Politics after January 6

15. Political Communication Research at a Time of Democratic Crises

16. It's Not Just the Fruit, It's the Factory Farm: Assessing the Past, Present, and Future of January 6th

17. Not Just Higher Truths: Critical Inquiry into Conservative Media after January 6th

18. Rethinking Right-​Wing Media in the Wake of an Attempted Coup

19. The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-​Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication

20. Afflicting the Comfortable

21. Taking It to the States

22. Reparation through Reporting.

23. Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-775856-8

0-19-775855-X

0-19-775854-1

OCLC:

1414378584