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ABSTRACT
This essay explores the changing character of public discourse in the Age of Twitter. Adopting the perspective of media ecology, the essay highlights how Twitter privileges discourse that is simple, impulsive, and uncivil. This effect is demonstrated through a case study of Donald J. Trump's Twitter feed. The essay concludes with a brief reflection on the end times: a post-truth, post-news, President Trump, Twitter-world.
Notes on contributor
Brian L. Ott is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University. He is the author of The small screen: How television equips us to live in the information age and critical media studies: An introduction (2nd ed.), as well as a co-editor of It’s not TV: Watching HBO in the post-television era, places of public memory: The rhetoric of museums and memorials, and The Routledge reader in rhetorical criticism.