{"id":7351,"date":"2021-03-23T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2021-05-10T15:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:39:01","slug":"online-book-talk-political-junkies-with-author-claire-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/2021\/03\/23\/online-book-talk-political-junkies-with-author-claire-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies &#8211; with Author Claire Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday,&nbsp;May&nbsp;5,&nbsp;2021,&nbsp;11:00AM&nbsp;to&nbsp;12:30PM&nbsp;(EDT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kobkuxRmqok\" style=\"border-radius:33px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING FROM THE EVENT<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/files\/2021\/03\/politicalJunkies-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/files\/2021\/03\/politicalJunkies-1.jpg 353w, https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/files\/2021\/03\/politicalJunkies-1-345x480.jpg 345w, https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/files\/2021\/03\/politicalJunkies-1-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Author&nbsp;<strong>Claire Potter<\/strong>&nbsp;will talk about her new book,<em>&nbsp;Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy,&nbsp;<\/em>with guests:&nbsp;<strong>Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer<\/strong><strong>, David Greenberg, and&nbsp;Nicole Hemmer<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wide-ranging history of seventy years of change in political media, and how it transformed \u2014 and fractured \u2014 American politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With fake news on Facebook, trolls on Twitter, and viral outrage everywhere, it\u2019s easy to believe that the internet changed politics entirely. In&nbsp;<em>Political Junkies<\/em>, historian&nbsp;<strong>Claire Bond Potter<\/strong>&nbsp;shows otherwise, revealing the roots of today\u2019s dysfunction by situating online politics in a longer history of alternative political media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From independent newsletters in the 1950s to talk radio in the 1970s to cable television in the 1980s, pioneers on the left and right developed alternative media outlets that made politics more popular, and ultimately, more partisan. When campaign operatives took up e-mail, blogging, and social media, they only supercharged these trends. At a time when political engagement has never been greater and trust has never been lower,&nbsp;<em>Political Junkies<\/em>&nbsp;is essential reading for understanding how we got here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Claire Potter,<\/strong> Professor of History, New School for Social Research<\/li><li><strong>Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Kozminski University<\/li><li><strong>David Greenberg<\/strong>, Professor of History and of Journalism &amp; Media Studies, Rutgers University<\/li><li><strong>Nicole Hemmer<\/strong>, Assistant professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center, University of Virginia <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moderator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeffrey C. Goldfarb<\/strong>, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/event.newschool.edu\/booktalkpoliticaljunkies\">Registered<\/a> attendees will receive the Zoom link via email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/democracyseminar.substack.com\/\">Democracy Seminar<\/a>&nbsp;&amp; the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/\">Transregional Center for Democratic Studies<\/a>, at&nbsp;The New School for Social Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday,&nbsp;May&nbsp;5,&nbsp;2021,&nbsp;11:00AM&nbsp;to&nbsp;12:30PM&nbsp;(EDT) Author&nbsp;Claire Potter&nbsp;will talk about her new book,&nbsp;Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy,&nbsp;with guests:&nbsp;Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and&nbsp;Nicole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61878,18694],"tags":[61901,15613,61878,8556,17911],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy-seminar","category-events-news","tag-book-talk","tag-democracy","tag-democracy-seminar","tag-media","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-test.newschool.edu\/tcds\/wpjson\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}