Show-Me Professor Ponders Meme Politics

In fairness, the "brat" meme is the one that progressives were pushing.

Meanwhile, the "KommieLa" has been mostly disappeared from the online space and it was much more popular. 

Nevertheless . . . 

Just for Sunday we share surprisingly worthwhile college perspective on the topic of rhetoric & persuasion in the social media era.

Here's the crux of the conversation . . . 

Dr. Brian Ott is the author of “The Twitter Presidency” and a distinguished professor in the communication, media, journalism and film department at Missouri State University. He says the information landscape today is dramatically different than it was even 10 years ago.

“Policy is almost absent from campaigning altogether, and everything today is based on public sentiment,” he said. “It’s based on how people feel about candidates. That’s the cultural coin of the internet. But a meme is not an argument. It’s an idea with emotion behind it.

“Going forward I think it’s absolutely the case that we’re going to see even a further continued erosion. Part of the reason I think that there’s so much misinformation and disinformation is because the high quality, hard news is swimming in the same stream as the cat videos.”

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A meme is not an argument: The intersection of politics and pop culture - News - Missouri State University

Missouri State's Dr. Brian Ott believes public sentiment, over policy, will drive voter turnout on Nov. 5.