COVER -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 THE MONSTER UNLEASHED -- CHAPTER 2 BRAND NEW WORLD -- CHAPTER 3 BRAND STRATEGIES GONE WRONG -- CHAPTER 4 CULTURE JAMMING -- CHAPTER 5 FAKE NEWS -- CHAPTER 6 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INTERNET TROLLS --...

Many advocate political reforms intended to resolve apparent disjunctures between politicians’ ideologically polarized policy positions and citizens’ less-polarized policy preferences. We show these apparent disjunctures can arise even when politicians represent their constituencies well,...

Variation in political slant across media outlets, and demand for such slant, has been studied extensively. We conduct a novel within-outlet (and within-topic) analysis of the demand for "congenially" slanted news. We study so-called horse race news from six major online outlets for the 2012 and...