Description The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J.
Greg Dickinson is Professor and Chair of Communication at Colorado State University, USA..
Ott is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the TTU Press at Texas Tech University, USA.
About the Author Brian L.
In addition to charting the defining characteristics of Trump\'s discourse, The Twitter Presidency exposes how Trump\'s rhetorical style threatens democratic norms, principles, and institutions.
This commonality between communication practices and communication platform (manner and modality) struck a powerful emotive chord with his followers, who feel aggrieved at the decentering of White masculinity.
There is, then, a structural homology between Trump\'s general communication practices and the specific platform (Twitter) he uses to communicate with his base.
His preferred modality of speaking, namely through Twitter, effectively channels and transmits the affective dimensions of White Rage by taking advantage of the platform\'s defining characteristics, which include simplicity, impulsivity, and incivility.
Trump\'s manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of White rage, and it is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery.
Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality.
Description The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J
