{"product_id":"selfie-democracy-isbn-9780262047050","title":"Selfie Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow politicians’ digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmartphones and other digital devices seem to give us a direct line to politicians. But is interacting with presidential tweets really a manifestation of digital democracy? In \u003ci\u003eSelfie Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Losh examines the unintended consequences of politicians’ digital strategies, from the Obama campaign’s pioneering construction of an online community to Trump’s Twitter dominance. She finds that politicians who use digital media appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, smartphones and social media don’t enable participatory democracy so much as they incentivize citizens to perform attention-getting acts of political expression.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLosh explores presidential rhetoric casting digital media as tools of democracy, describes the conflation of gender and technology that contributed to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016, chronicles the Biden campaign’s early digital stumbles in 2020, and recounts the TikTok campaign that may have spoiled a Trump rally. She shows that although Obama and Trump may seem diametrically opposed in both style and substance, they both used mobile digital media in ways that reshaped the presidency and promised a new kind of digital democracy. Obama used data and digital media to connect to citizens without intermediaries; Trump followed this strategy to its most extreme conclusion. What were the January 6 insurrectionists doing, as they livestreamed themselves and their cohorts attacking the Capitol, but practicing their own brand of selfie democracy?Introduction: Unwiring Democracy ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Obama's Rhetoric of Connection 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Obama's Rhetoric of Transparency 13\u003cbr\u003e3 Obama's Rhetoric of Participation 41\u003cbr\u003e4 Obama's Rhetoric of Access 59\u003cbr\u003e5 Representing Representation 73\u003cbr\u003e6 Identity Politics and Posthuman Technologies 95\u003cbr\u003e7 Gender and Digital Privacy 127\u003cbr\u003e8 Trump's Rhetoric of Connection 147\u003cbr\u003e9 Trump's Rhetoric of Transparency 171\u003cbr\u003e10 Trump's Rhetoric of Access 195\u003cbr\u003e11 Together Alone with Biden 219\u003cbr\u003e12 Trump's Rhetoric of Participation 239\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The New Digital Politics 247\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 259\u003cbr\u003eNotes 265\u003cbr\u003eIndex 333“Dr. Losh provides thought-provoking criticism and helpful context about the potential of social media to improve the relationship between citizens and the leaders they elect.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMacon Phillips, Founder of Starling Strategy, former Director of Digital Strategy for President Barack Obama\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“With chilling logic, Losh reveals a disturbing window into the socio-technical dimensions of online political communication at the presidential level. Researchers, policymakers and anyone interested in social media use by presidential administrations will find this book a valuable, insightful, and compelling read.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jane E. Fountain, Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Author of \u003ci\u003eBuilding the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Losh is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and English at William \u0026amp; Mary. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVirtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300608200933,"sku":"NP9780262047050","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047050.jpg?v=1767736333","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/selfie-democracy-isbn-9780262047050","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}