Tea with Dr. J Episode 17: Social Media in the 2010s and the Personal Media Age

 

In this episode I sound like an old woman who should be saying, “Get off my lawn!” My point in this podcast is to point out that social media is supposed to connect us, yet why don’t we feel more connected?  Face-to-face communication matters! Can’t we make that the new social craze of this new decade? I’m not saying to ditch social media in 2020–I’m saying, lets make it a more healthy habit than what we did in the 2010s. We can do better! We ARE better!

Let’s look up from the screen with 2020 vision to say–Yes! World, come on let’s do this. Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen if you’re always looking down.  Let’s start connecting again, but that requires you to put away the screen and look at each other in the eyes–and while you’re at it–smile.

I am a professor, pretend political pundit, media critic, and the author of the upcoming book: Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns: Candidates' Use of New Media. (December 2020 Lexington Books) Critiquing and monitoring social media/media in the political process is what I do. I live for American Presidential Campaigns.

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