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Social Media Affordances: Donald Trump, Politics and Social Change
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Abstract By first establishing a cynical political climate, this paper highlights how Donald Trump was able to secure votes from the growing disgruntled alt-right public. This paper also utilizes successful movement from Tahrir Square and MyBarackObama to showcase social media’s power to mobilize publics for social change. The analysis show that attention commodity and decentralized…
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Hi Shannon Kate, You’re right to ask; it is incredibly difficult to police these issues today. Predatory behaviour isn’t exclusive…