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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 The Disrupting of Mobile Communication -- The Paul Pelosi Attack -- Technology Is Disruptive -- Four Disruptive Themes -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Mobile Digital Technology Disrupts the News Media Industry -- 2 Disrupting Journalism -- Technological Advances in Journalism -- Paywalls -- Video Content -- The New World of Journalism -- References -- 3 Information Literacy in a Mobile World -- "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- Critical Thinking About the News -- Social Media's Contribution -- The Cambridge Analytica Scandal -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Digital Mobile Media Disrupts Consumption of News -- 4 "Fake News" in a Mobile World -- The Fake News Agenda -- Ideological Media Emerges -- Trump and the Media -- "Fake News" as a Strategy -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 News Deserts -- Is Local News Dying? -- The Effects of News Desertification -- The Role of Digital Media -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Digital Mobile Technology Disruption of Electioneering -- 6 A New World of Campaigning -- Campaigning Is a Growth Industry -- The First Social Campaign -- Shifting Campaign Strategy -- Campaigning In A Social World -- Donald Trump Changes the Game -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Polarizing Media, Polarizing Politics -- The Consequences of Strategic Base Mobilization -- Harsher Campaign Rhetoric -- Governmental Polarization -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Digital Mobile Media Disrupting Democracy -- 8 Negative Partisanship -- Rewiring the Human Brain -- The Tribal Mentality of the Digital Mobile World -- Negative Partisanship -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 The Media and the American Voter -- The Homogeneity Impetus -- Identity Politics in the Digital Mobile Environment -- Declining Trust -- Conclusions -- The Question of Inevitability.

This second edition explores the relationship between politics and media, with a particular emphasis on the significant disruptive changes to media and technology that have faced journalists, campaigners, and the public in recent years. The first edition, in 2014, described the earliest elements of social and online media: Web 2.0, the 'information economy,' and the changes from traditional broadcast media to the early online world. With the rise of TikTok, the 'fake news' claims of Donald Trump, the decline of local news, and the anti-democratic impulses that drove the January 6, 2021 coup attempts, the last decade has provided a rich and sometimes confounding set of disruptions to political communication that deserve attention. Technology has disrupted political communication in the online environment exceptionally quickly over the last decade, and this book provides a framework for understanding the intersections of these disruptions and their effect on an already-fragile democratic circumstance in the United States.

Sowing the seeds of civic failure -- A primer on republican democracy -- Taking the parties out -- The effects of partisan decline -- The semi-sovereign media -- The state of the American voter -- The dream and the nightmare of term limits -- The promise and the despair of campaign finance reform -- Leading by following, or, The unreasonable expectations on the political class -- Look forward, angel -- A pathway to American revival

"Shifting to an online world has drastically changed political communication. From producers of news and the consumers receiving it, from how campaigns communicate with voters to how elected officials connect with constituents, technology has disrupted political communication by making the speed of messages faster, creating a social environment that allows for mobile creation and consumption of content. In Communicating Politics Online, Chapman Rackaway shows how every actor involved in the political world, from the President to the everyday voter, has to rethink the process and strategy of political communication. Using online supplements linked to the main text allows the book to capture the hyper-accelerated pace of new media political communication"--