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Well Said: Social media and politics

In this week's podcast, a journalism professor discusses how social media has become a game-changer on the campaign trail.

Political campaigns are transforming as social media creates new ways for politicians to reach voters and showcase their platform. From well-timed tweets to digital missteps, social media has become a game-changer on the campaign trail.

In this week’s episode, we’re talking politics and social media Daniel Kreiss, UNC School of Media and Journalism associate professor and author of Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Join us every Wednesday for the University’s podcast as we talk with Carolina’s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty,staffand alumni will discuss what’s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines.