Televisual Cybernetic Populism

Extending the concept of Cybernetic Populism to include an analysis of the mediums which facilitate it

America changed in 2016 with the rise of Bernie Sanders populism and Donald Trump populism

Bernie and Trump were both tapped into the psyche of the masses

Bernie was popular on social media among the younger crowd

Trump was also popular there, but also his background with in Reality TV

Social media and Reality TV are both forms of broadcast media

TV has a much tighter cybernetic feedback loop than feature films

Social media is obviously designed to have tight cybernetic Feedback loops to measure how popular something is and whether it should be shown to others

This is in contrast to the Cybernetic Populism of the 1930s which was an era of radio, audio, rather than visual.

Media and its power