Donald J. Trump's Presidency

ISBN-13: 9781032640747 / Twarda / 2023 / 118 str.

Opis

This book captures Donald J. Trump’s presidency by addressing the remarkable tropes that defined that period. It offers research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Trump’s presidency, with a focus on race, immigration, xenophobia, and social conflicts as they interact with communication. 

Spis treści

Introduction—Donald Trump’s America: Communicating the Seeds of Racism, Xenophobia, & Persistent Conflict  1. “Nasty Question” and “Fake News”: Metadiscourse as a Resource for Denying Accusations of Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Press Events  2. Communicating Racism and Xenophobia in the Era of Donald Trump: A Computational Framing Analysis of the US-Mexico Cross-Border Wall Discourses  3. Alba the Undocumented: Immigration Law and Citizenship Excess in Jane the Virgin  4. (Re) Framing Legal Vulnerability: Identity, Abjection, and Resistance among DACAmented Immigrants in the Era of Trumpism  5. The Media and Race in the Trump Era: An Analysis of Two Racially Different Newsrooms’ Coverage of BLM and DACA  6. First-Generation Immigrants’ and Sojourners’ Believability Evaluation of Disinformation

O autorze

Chuka Onwumechili is Professor of Communications at Howard University, USA and Editor-In-Chief of the Howard Journal of Communications (since 2015). He authored/co-edited more than 12 books and numerous academic articles. His most recent work is developing the African Cultural Theory of Communication (ACToC).