Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-6308-6 • Hardback • May 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-6310-9 • Paperback • August 2020 • $47.99 • (£37.00)
978-1-4985-6309-3 • eBook • May 2018 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Regina Luttrell is assistant professor of social media and public relations at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: America Under a Trump Administration: Vicissitudes in Communication
Regina Luttrell
Part 1: Journalism
Chapter 1. Undiplomatic Diplomacy: The Challenges of Public Diplomacy in the Age of Trump
Stephanie Madden, Leysan Khakimova Storie, and Michael J. Steudeman
Chapter 2. The News Media Framing of Trump: An Enigma or a Political Renegade
Arvind Diddi
Chapter 3. “A Statement from the President”: The Social Construction of News and Journalists’ use of Donald Trump’s Tweets
Brian Moritz
Part 2: Government
Chapter 4. China is Laughing at US. SAD!: Trump’s Twitter Diplomacy
Chiaoning Su and Paige L. Gibson
Chapter 5. Why Tweeting Makes for Bad Policy: President's Trump’s Twitter Campaign
and its Shortchanging of Critical Thinking
Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer
Part 3: Social Media
Chapter 6. Presidential Twitter Storms: When is President Trump Creating a Storm?
Jennifer Grygiel and Regina Luttrell
Chapter 7. Total Losers, Highly Overrated: Donald Trump and Internet Trolling in Real Life
Robert J. Baron
Part 4: Business
Chapter 8. Trump, Trucks, and Twitter: The Auto Industry Case and Presidential Speech on Social Media
Steve A. Stuglin
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Donald Trump was a boundary-defying presidential candidate and continued to defy conventional norms early in his presidency. This collection of essays and studies assembled by Gina Luttrell helps us make sense of a changing political and journalistic environment in the Trump era, not only in the United States but overseas. From looking at how journalists have covered Trump to Trump's use of Twitter, this book offers vital insights and raises important questions about American politics as we know it and where we are going forward.
— Tom Gallagher, La Salle University
This edited volume offers a comprehensive examination of the ways in which Trump’s presidency deviates from political and social norms. Chapters cover Trump’s penchant for trolling, the perils of using tweets to conduct domestic and foreign policy, and how media outlets attempt to make sense of it all. It’s an important book for political communication researchers and others who want to understand how much political discourse has changed in the last few years.
— John H. Parmelee, University of North Florida, co-author of Politics and the Twitter Revolution
This book is an engaging volume that uses a variety of rigorous analytical approaches to analyze the ways in which candidate and now President Trump has used Twitter. The essays in this volume are impressive and encourage readers to think about the ways in which past, present, and future presidents have or will engage with the media, social media, and the public. The effects of Trump's Twitter use have manifested themselves in diverse spheres that range from the auto industry, foreign policy, and relations with China. This volume also sheds light on the complex dynamics between the way in which Trump portrays the media, and alternatively, the way that the media cover him. This volume richly adds to our knowledge about how Trump uses Twitter, provides researchers with ideas on which they can build, and gives students a framework by which they can gain a better understanding of Trump's Twitter use, including the dynamics of his periodic Twitter Storms.
— Kenneth W. Moffett, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville