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The article discusses how Barack Obama used social media to reshape public opinion and the Democratic Party's image, moving away from traditional media influence. It suggests that this new approach allowed the White House to create its own narrative and bypass established reporting practices. The piece also highlights the challenges and consequences of this shift, particularly in light of recent political events and the role of figures like Elon Musk.
which has been reconfigured at key moments by new technologies. In turn, these technologies, which redefine both space and time—canals and lakes, the postal system, the telegraph, railroads, radio and later television, the internet, and most recently the networking of billions of people in real time on social media platforms—set the rules by which stories are communicated, audiences are configured (View Highlight)