{"product_id":"sharded-media-william-merrin-9783031847851","title":"Sharded Media: Trump's Rage Against the Mainstream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSharded Media\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how the unleashing of individual public opinion and rage became the most valuable of political currency. The digital's sharding of experience through personal networks, platforms, recommendations and peer-linked sources, has splintered political awareness, experience and activity. Rage, resentment, hypocrisy, and a hyporeal, self-curated reality, have fractured the political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book takes the rise of Donald J. Trump as both a symptom and a catalyst of this phenomenon, embodying the public's disenchantment with liberal democracy and its embrace of a more visceral, emotionally-driven politics. We consider how economic devastation wrought by global neoliberalism and zombie capitalism fuelled public rage against the mainstream, ending in a supreme yet odd coalition for Trump, with an elite which leveraged technology with anti-democratic sentiments to further its goals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe show how the liberal mainstream news media (MSM) made facts and truth their USP, their core pitch for trust, in precisely the period when they became most elusive. It was the MSM that seduced a middle ground of America to believe that they were reality, pushing the \u003cem\u003edeplorables\u003c\/em\u003e to its margins, until the margins became the reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Merrin, Andrew Hoskins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031847857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031847851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d","brand":"William Merrin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685909876991,"sku":"9783031847851","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9a7ab53-5021-46ae-9cec-65b2f26fa6e0.jpg?v=1741727134","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sharded-media-william-merrin-9783031847851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}