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Jay David Bolter
Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair in New Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mike Blake / Reuters
Social Media Are Ruining Political Discourse
The endless flow of content doesn’t need to make sense to create engagement.
Jay David Bolter
May 19, 2019
