The Citizen Marketer
The Citizen Marketer explores how everyday people circulate political media messages in the hopes of persuading peers and shaping the public mind. By examining the logics behind spreading political memes, hashtags, and more, Joel Penney charts the promises of citizen marketing for expanding democrat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in digital politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Citizen Marketer explores how everyday people circulate political media messages in the hopes of persuading peers and shaping the public mind. By examining the logics behind spreading political memes, hashtags, and more, Joel Penney charts the promises of citizen marketing for expanding democratic participation, as well as the risks that these practices pose for polarization, the trivialization of issues, and control and manipulation by elites. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190658076 019065807X 9780190658090 0190658096 |