how Russian hackers and trolls helped elect a president : what we don't, can't, and do know /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 314 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-303) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In Cyberwar, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who sifted through a vast amount of polling and voting data, is able to conclude with a reasonable degree of certainty that Russian help was crucial in elevating Trump to the Oval Office. Put simply, by changing the behavior of key players and altering the focus and content of mainstream news, Russian hackers reshaped the 2016 electoral dynamic. At the same time, Russian trolls used social media to target voting groups indispensable to a Trump victory or Clinton defeat. There are of course many arguments on offer that push against the idea that the Russians handed Trump his victory. Russia's goal was fomenting division, not electing Trump. Most of the Russian ads reportedly did not reference either the election or a candidate. Nor did they differ much from U.S.-based messaging that was already in play. Russian intervention did not surgically target Trump in key states. Finally, if WikiLeaks' releases of stolen email had truly affected the vote, Clinton's perceived honesty would have dropped in October. Jamieson, drawing from her four decades of research on the role of media in American elections, dispenses with these arguments through a forensic tracing of both Russian hackers' impact on media coverage as well as the ebbs and flows of Trump's polling support over the course of the campaign. Combining scholarly rigor with a bracing argument, Cyberwar shows that we can now be reasonably confident that Russian efforts helped put Trump in the White House"--
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Title
Cyberwar
International Standard Book Number
9780190915827
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Trump, Donald,1946-
Trump, Donald,1946-
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Elections-- Corrupt practices-- United States.
Presidents-- United States-- Election-- 2016.
Diplomatic relations.
Mass media-- Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections.
Presidents-- Election.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Russia (Federation), Foreign relations, United States.
United States, Foreign relations, Russia (Federation)