Columns to Characters: The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age (Kenneth E. Montague Presidential Rhetoric Series)
Columns to Characters: The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age (Kenneth E. Montague Presidential Rhetoric Series)
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About the AuthorSTEPHANIE A. MARTIN is an assistant professor in the department of communication and public affairs at Southern Methodist University.
The accessible essays here explore these implications in a variety of real-world circumstances: the “narcotizing” numbness of information overload and voter apathy; the concerns over privacy, security, and civil liberties; new methods of running political campaigns and mobilizing support for programs; and a future “post-rhetorical presidency” in which the press is all but irrelevant. The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter of seconds. Each section of the book concludes with a “reality check,
STEPHANIE A. MARTIN is an assistant professor in the department of communication and public affairs at Southern Methodist University.