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Is Trump a blogger or a social object?
The relationship between Trump and other users of his social media platform Truth Social is interesting, and not a little alarming.
podcasts
Audience Strategy: further reading (listening?)
More bonus links for my students, with a distinct MAGA world theme…
Rule 1: Never trust Facebook
Zuckerberg is MAGAing Facebook and Instagram. But he's always done what suits the company, not what helps the users.
Bluesky
Bluesky is having a moment. Time to pay attention.
Musk's close alignment with the new US President-elect has triggered a new exodus from X — with many communities heading for Bluesky. Will this be the tipping point for the new network?
trolling
Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage
If you were in any doubt that the fundamental tools of the online troll are now at play in global politics, the last week should have put paid to that.
Politics
Social & Digital lunchbreak: inflection points in politics and subscriptions
Lots of simmering tensions in politics and social media are coming to a head. Interesting timing…
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Journalism problems: delegitimizing media and a paucity of participation
Jay Rosen's latest list of his journalism challenges is particularly thought-provoking right now.
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Live tweeting Trump at the NYT
Alexandra Ma [https://twitter.com/alexandrama15], one of my current crop of Interactive Journalism students, looks at how the New York Times live covered its meeting with Trump [http://www.interhacktives.com/2016/11/23/new-york-times-coverage-trumps-visit-shows-twitter-can-still-great/] : > But out of all the ways the Times covered the event, Twitter was
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The end of presidential access journalism in the US
The newly-elected Donald Trump seems determined to cut the press out of the equation
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On criticism and appropriate times
Now is not the time to criticise the Galaxy Note 7 [https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/now-is-not-the-time-to-criticize-the-galaxy-note-7] : > Now, I’m not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesn’t have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically no reason at
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About that 1998 Trump interview…
We're all prone to confirmation bias. Even me.
Andrew Sullivan
Trump's America
Andrew Sullivan [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/andrew-sullivan-president-trump-and-the-end-of-the-republic.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email] : > This is now Trump’s America. He controls everything from here on forward. He has won this campaign in such a decisive fashion that he owes no one anything. He has