Blog – The Twitter Presidency

USA Today Op-Ed

Post author By Brian
Post date February 12, 2021

Neera Tanden, Trump, Twitter: social media hypocrisy is bipartisan (usatoday.com)

Business Insider Op-Ed

Post author By Brian
Post date January 12, 2021

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-facebook-problematic-social-media-informing-educating-public-2021-1

USA Today Op-Ed

Post author By Brian
Post date January 12, 2021

Twitter bans Trump but vitriol and violence are its deeper problems (usatoday.com)

New Essay @ PSQ

Post author By Brian
Post date December 22, 2020

Political Science Quarterly cover

Brian L. Ott & Greg Dickinson

(Winter, 2020)

The Twitter Presidency: How Donald Trump’s Tweets Undermine Democracy and Threaten Us All

Political Science Quarterly, 135(4), 607-636.

doi: 10.1002/polq.13129

Interview @ CSMC

Post author By Brian
Post date December 16, 2020

Robert Alan Brookey & Brian L. Ott

(2019)

Trump and Twitter 2.0

Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36(1), 92-96.

doi: 10.1080/15295036.2018.1546052

Now Available in Paperback

Post author By Brian
Post date December 14, 2020

Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (September 30, 2020)

Paperback: 122 pages

ISBN-10: 0367670283

ISBN-13: 978-0367670283

Brian Ott and Greg Dickinson’s The Twitter Presidency was the first book-length academic study of President Trump’s rhetoric and his use of Twitter. It is centrally concerned with Donald Trump’s rhetorical style, which the authors argue reflects an aesthetics of white rage and is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery. The Twitter Presidency specifically explores how Trump took advantage of Twitter’s structural biases, namely simplicity, impulsivity, and incivility, to effectively channel and transmit the affective dimensions of white rage. The homology between his general communication practices and his preferred communication platform (manner and modality), Ott and Dickinson argue, struck a powerful emotive chord with his followers, who felt aggrieved at the decentering of white masculinity.