%0 Journal Article
%T Forget Messiahs
%A Zizi Papacharissi
%J Social Media + Society
%@ 2056-3051
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2056305119849710
%X In this short essay, I talk about the political messiahs, how they are elevated to prominence via affective news, and something that I refer to as civic adulthood
%K affective news
%K politics
%K news
%K journalism
%K civic engagement
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305119849710