Description
The images cast across screens across the country on January 6, 2021, laid bare the fragility of American democracy as the steps and halls of the US Capitol were inundated by a violent band of insurrectionists. Fed by blatant lies, political anger, and racial animus, they sought to halt a procedure enshrined in the US Constitution and to overturn a freely and fairly run election. Meanwhile, efforts to obstruct, avoid, and misrepresent the subsequent investigation of the January 6th attack have continued apace.With a relative dearth of work that centers historical and contemporary racial, ethnic, and power dynamics in the context of media, our interdisciplinary field was caught flat-footed, unprepared to respond to those who actively seek to undermine American democracy. This edited volume is a first step toward remedying that situation. Media and January 6th brings together a diverse group of leading scholars to help us more clearly understand the relationship between media and the attempted coup. The volume examines why and how January 6th came to be and the centrality of media to the event. It is organized around three key questions: How should we understand January 6, 2021? What should research look like after January 6, 2021? And how can we prevent another event like this?
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS1. Understanding Media's Role in January 6th, 2021, Khadijah Costley White, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C. McGregor, Rebekah Tromble, SECTION ONEHow should we understand January 6, 2021?2. It Was an Attempted Coup, The Cline Center's Coup d'?tat Project Categorizes the January 6, 2021 Assault on the US Capitol, Scott L. Althaus, Joseph Bajjalieh, Jay Jennings, Michael Martin, Buddy Peyton, and Dan Shalmon3. January 6th and the Boundaries of Protest, Danielle K. Brown4. Remembering January 6th: An Insurrection, the Media, and the Shadow of the Tea Party, Khadijah Costley White5. ?Stop the Steal? and the Racial Legacy of Election Disinformation, Francesca Tripodi6. ?Fake and Fraudulent? vs. ?An American Right?: Competing Imaginaries of the Vote in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Brian McKernan, Christy Khoury, and Pyeonghwa Kim7. The Changing American Racial Landscape and January 6th, Andrew Thompson8. Identity Distillation: The Engine Driving America's Asymmetrically Sorted Mediated Political Crisis, Dannagal G. Young9. January 6th as Logical Extension of Conservative Populism, Paul Elliott Johnson10. Anti-democratic Publics: The January 6th Mob and Digital Organizing, Silvio Waisbord 11. The Ordinary Insurrection: January 6 and the Mainstreaming of Political Violence, Alice E. Marwick12. The Anti-Democratic Feedback Loop: Right-Wing Media Responses to January 6, Becca LewisSECTION TWO:What should research look like after January 6, 2021? How can we prevent another January 6, 2021?13. Online Data and the Insurrection, Megan A. Brown14. What Can ?We? Do?, Reflections on Politics After January 6, Cynthia Burack15. Political Communication Research at a Time of Democratic Crises, Daniel Kreiss16. It's Not Just the Fruit, It's the Factory Farm: Assessing the Past, Present, and Future of January 6th, Whitney Phillips and Regina Lawrence17. Not Just Higher Truths: Critical Inquiry into Conservative Media After January 6th, Anthony Nadler18. Rethinking Right-wing Media in the Wake of an Attempted Coup, Yunkang Yang19. The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Level Approach to Political Communication, Sadie Dempsey and Jianing Li20. Afflicting the Comfortable, Dave Karpf21. Taking it to the States, Lewis Friedland22. Reparation Through Reporting, Meredith D. Clark23. Epilogue, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon C. McGregor, Rebekah Tromble, and Khadijah Costley White.
