Hacking Hybrid Media

Stephen R. Barnard is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Butler University. His work examines the role media and communication technologies play in relations of power, practice, and democracy. He is the author of Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the Transformation of American Journalism, and co-author of All Media are Social: Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media. His scholarship has been published in New Media & Society, Journalism, Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, Hybrid Pedagogy, and in several edited volumes.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Power and Problematic Information in an Era of Hybrid Media3. Channels of Distortion: The End of the Fairness Doctrine and the Resurgence of (Domestic) Information Warfare4. What are Platforms For? Profit, Persuasion, and (Dis)Information5. Hacking Meaning and Influence in the (Dis)Information Age: The Acosta 'Assault' Case6. We Are Trump's Digital Army! Capital and Practices of Manipulation on The Donald7. Trouble with Power, Practice, and Information in the Hybrid Media SystemNotesBibliographyIndex

With an engaging voice and a sophisticated eye, Barnard shows the way the complex interplay of technological, political, social, and journalistic structures and practices give birth to what he terms networked media capital, a new form of media power that is both readily weaponized and distinctly damaging to the political information environment. Rich with empirically grounded theoretical insight, Hacking Hybrid Media is a must-read for scholars of political communication, media sociology, journalism, American democracy, and public discourse.