Fake news! Misinformation in the era of Trump

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dc.contributor.authorAndrew, Lindsey
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-24T15:27:54Z
dc.date.available2025-04-24T15:27:54Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractMy research seeks to answer the question of whether Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Employing the method and lens of discourse analysis and social constructivism, I argue that the threat posed by Trump to democracy comes in the indirect form of a misinformed electorate that can demonstrably be mobilized against US democratic processes. First, I explore how misinformation disseminates and how a digital informational environment exacerbates its dissemination. Then I apply my findings from the first section to the case study of the 2020 US presidential election and the capitol riots that followed. I conclude that an over-abundance of misinformation results in increases in both informational learned helplessness and citizens being manipulated to attack their own democratic institutions.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduate
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21978
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity Of Victoria
dc.subjectDonald Trump
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectUS politics
dc.subjectmisinformation
dc.titleFake news! Misinformation in the era of Trump
dc.typePoster

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