Amplifying Extremism by Nik Usher

Amplifying Extremism by Nik Usher

Within a week, a no-name Republican state representative from a town of 384 people in Illinois catapulted from obscurity to a prime-time appearance on Fox News' Ingraham Angle. This newly empowered politician, Darren Bailey, would go on to steer the pro-business Republican party in Illinois toward extremism. Democratic backsliding emerges across all levels of politics, but the threats posed by small-town politicians have been overshadowed by national-level politicians. This microstudy of a single politician's debut in the public eye showcases a novel approach to media corpus construction that combines proprietary and open databases, aggregated search tools, and targeted searching, and includes local, regional, and national news across digital-first, radio, news publishers, broadcast and cable television, and social media. The Element provides unique insights into how American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.

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ISBN 13	9781009668781
ISBN 10	1009668781
Title	Amplifying Extremism
Author	Nik Usher
Series	Elements In Politics And Communication
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2025-06-12
Number of pages	75
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