![]() ![]() ![]() All hypotheses of this study have been confirmed including main one, saying that increases in media addiction cause decreases in political participation. Research is conducted through nationally representative survey in Serbia during 2013. On the other hand, decreases in political participation are registered together with decline in socializing and active membership in professional organizations for the same period. Data point to increases in overall media use over the last 60 years. Features of new media such as interactivity and possibility to use it from anywhere anytime indicate the Internet may be highly addictive. public officials – past and present – and also highlight the role of the media in the propagation and cultivation of dog whistle politics.Īppearance of the Internet and its spread to 38.8% of world population from 1995 to 2013 indicate that new media bring significant changes to societies around the world. In conducting this research, I provide examples from U.S. In order to showcase that Trump’s ascendancy to the top of the Republican primary election was not a political accident, but a natural progression of decades-old officially sanctioned electoral policies, the study analyzes the origins behind the “dog whistle” practice, based on the model of strategic racism advanced by Ian Haney López. Instead, as this study will argue, Trump’s electoral success during the primary elections can be in part attributed to the Republican Party’s decades-long history of strategic racism that has been instrumental in grooming the party’s base into Donald Trump’s supporters. Yet Donald Trump’s campaign was not innovative by any means. The more ethnic stereotypical caricatures and outright lies he employed in his speeches, the more successful his primary campaign was and the more he unnerved the Republican establishment, the general electorate, and the media. The Republican candidate had won the party’s nomination by openly and devoutly proselytizing against minority groups that allegedly threaten the fabric, integrity, and security of the United States. On the other, the 2016 election brought to the surface a dormant longing for a privileged past rooted in open discrimination, inequality, segregation, and white supremacy, echoed by Donald Trump’s campaign. On one hand, there was the fond remembrance of the Clinton administration characterized by a period of economic prosperity which overshadowed the more disastrous aftermath of various policies (the crime bill, the welfare reform, the Defense of Marriage Act, the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, etc.). presidential election can be described as nostalgic. ![]()
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