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The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness

The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness

Technologies of communication condition human sense-making. They do so by creating the social environment we …

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Opinion | I Studied Trump's Twitter Use for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.

Opinion | I Studied Trump's Twitter Use for Six Years. Prepare for the Worst.

Elon Musk's decision to activate Donald Trump's account is a dangerous one.

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Look at 3 enduring stories Americans tell about guns to understand the debate over them

Look at 3 enduring stories Americans tell about guns to understand the debate over them

The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain - and th…

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Democracy in Trump era is dying tweet by tweet and we won't see the big picture for years

Democracy in Trump era is dying tweet by tweet and we won't see the big picture for years

Trump's fractured rhetoric is like the dots in a pointillist painting. By the time the microbursts come into …

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Why the media should ignore Trump live-tweeting the Democratic primary debates | Opinion

Why the media should ignore Trump live-tweeting the Democratic primary debates | Opinion

The mainstream news media has few harsher critics than President Trump, who frequently derides them as "fake …

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Stupid, incompetent, racist, loser: Do Trump's Twitter insults project his own faults? | Opinion

Stupid, incompetent, racist, loser: Do Trump's Twitter insults project his own faults? | Opinion

Donald Trump's propensity for ridiculing his opponents (both real and imagined) is well known to even the mos…

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Who's done more damage to America, Fox News or Twitter? | Opinion

Who's done more damage to America, Fox News or Twitter? | Opinion

In a May 22 interview with CNN Business, Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, noted that despite President Tru…

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is schooling Trump on how to do Twitter | Opinion

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is schooling Trump on how to do Twitter | Opinion

Every medium or technology of communication has its own unique structural biases. Because of these biases, so…

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The three traits of a Donald Trump tweetstorm | Opinion

The three traits of a Donald Trump tweetstorm | Opinion

A sort of climatological relation exists between negative news stories about President Donald Trump and the f…

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Donald Trump really is 'crying out' for impeachment. It's the ultimate victim card.

Donald Trump really is 'crying out' for impeachment. It's the ultimate victim card.

Impeachment would help Trump paint himself as a victim of the system he oversees. Voters must reject this dan…

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Donald Trump's rhetoric didn't cause Christchurch shootings, but it sure invited it

Donald Trump's rhetoric didn't cause Christchurch shootings, but it sure invited it

Donald Trump invites us to follow our worst impulses. He invites us to be our worst selves. As someone who ha…

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President Donald Trump or President Sean Hannity? Fox News host has dangerous influence.

President Donald Trump or President Sean Hannity? Fox News host has dangerous influence.

Is there anyone who believes Trump is the one telling Hannity what to say? He has become a mouthpiece for Fox…

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