List of imagesList of figuresList of tablesForeword: The Mass Media, Social Movements, the Trump Era, and the Crisis of DemocracyPreface: The Media Dependence Model Offers a Critique and Policy Solutions Steeped in Political Economy That Will EndureAuthor’s PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Surveying and Contextualizing the Book in the Age of Social Media and the Pandemic1 The News Media Landscape of the Age of Social Media and Related Lessons in Media Literacy2 The Media Dependence Model in the Age of Social Media: A Political Economic and Critical Media Analysis of the Mainstream Global News Media System3 Caged Children and Trump’s “Nuclear Option”: An MDM Case Study on New York Times Coverage and How Online-Based Resistance Ended Trump’s Ill-Fated Family Separation Policy4 2019’s Banner Year of Worldwide Political Resistance: An MDM Multi-Case Study of New York Times Coverage of Leading “Worthy” and “Unworthy” Social Movements5 Are Individual Consumers the Main Culprits for Climate Change? An MDM Case Study on the Climate Strike Movement, Greenwashing and Mainstream versus Nonprofit News Media Coverage6 The MDM in the Pandemic Era: The New York Times, Fox News and a Composite of News Coverage of the #CancelRent Movement and #Liberate Resistance7 A Reality Television Star Won the Electoral College: How Mainstream News Media Played a Vital Role in the Electoral College Victory of the Made-for-TV Candidate, Donald Trump8 A Public Policy Analysis of Net Neutrality Protections and Their Intimate Link with the Future of Independent and Professional Journalism9 Applying the MDM to the #OccupyWallStreet and #YoSoy132 Movements for Mainstream Coverage During the Dawn of the Age of Social Media10 Comparing Today’s Era of Social Media with the Early Beginnings of the Digital Age: Double Standards? An MDM Case Study on Immigration Coverage for the case of Elián González and Nine Potentially “Unworthy” Unaccompanied ChildrenConclusion: Surveying Leading Arguments of the MDM, Related Public Policy Solutions and Needed News Media ReformsAfterword: The Biden Administration, Mainstream Media, Russia, the MDM and Mass ResistanceBibliographyIndex