Political Junkies

A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed — and fractured — American politics With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it’s easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In Political Junkies, historian Claire Bond Potter shows otherwise, revealing the roots of today’s dysfunction by situating online politics in a longer history of alternative political media. From independent newsletters... Voir plus