The Hybrid Media System

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and individuals who are best able to blend older and newer media logics, in what Chadwick terms a hybrid system. From American presidential campaigns to WikiLeaks, from live prime ministerial debates to hotly contested political scandals, from the daily practices of journalists and campaign workers to the struggles of new activist organizations, the clash of media logics causes chaos and disintegration but also surprising new patterns of order and integration. The updated second edition features a new preface and an extensive new chapter applying the conceptual framework to the extraordinary 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, the rise of Donald Trump, and the anti-Trump resistance protests.

Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Communication in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He is the author of the award-winning book Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies, co-editor (with Philip N. Howard) of The Handbook of Internet Politics, and the founding editor of the OUP book series, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. http://www.andrewchadwick.com

Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: An Ontology of Hybridity Chapter 2: All Media Systems Have Been Hybrid Chapter 3: The Contemporary Contexts of Hybridity Chapter 4: The Political Information Cycle Chapter 5: Power, Interdependence, and Hybridity in the Construction of Political News: Understanding WikiLeaks Chapter 6: Symphonic Consonance in Campaign Communication: Reinterpreting Obama for America Chapter 7: Systemic Hybridity in the Mediation of the American Presidential Campaign Chapter 8: Hybrid Norms in News and Journalism Chapter 9: Hybrid Norms in Activism, Parties, and Government Chapter 10: Donald Trump, the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System Conclusion: Politics and Power in the Hybrid Media System List of Interviews Notes Bibliography Index