This book explores the effects of both old and new conservative media on political attitudes and attitude-consistent behavioral intentions. The author combines the latest neuro-cognitive research and theories on information and misinformation processing and attitudinal development with extensive scholarship on media priming, framing, agenda-setting, and cultivation effects, to put forth a new working media effects theory.
Drawing on three longitudinal experimental studies from the US and UK, the book promotes an interdisciplinary and complex-systems based model of media effects that explains...

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centred around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.

This volume examines the ways in which the media, including film, television, social media, and gaming has constructed and sustained a narrative of white supremacy that has entered mainstream American discourse.

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.