Democracy and the media in the United States
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https://doi.org/10.37135/kai.03.06.02Keywords:
Democracy, media, public deliberation, United States, social networksAbstract
The democratic system of the United States has undergone, for several years now, a severe transformation in which the media play a major role. The new technological reality has removed the centrality in the articulation of public deliberation to the traditional media: television, radio and the press. Today they coexist with platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram that are accessible to all and that can form independent networks and circulate information, in multiple senses, causing an atomization of public conversation. In this context, the possibilities of the traditional media to conduct the political debate are reduced, as was verified in the 2016 campaigns and we see it now facing the 2020 electoral process. With the triumph of Donald Trump, the term “fake news” It acquired a thrown weapon connotation against its critics and today is one of the main threats to the integrity of democratic deliberation. For this reason, it is legitimate to ask whether Trump's bid to harass traditional media is a threat to the integrity of the democratic system or can democracy survive with a polarized and confrontational conversation, riddled with lies and manipulation of personal data.
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