Trump’s Alpha Male Posturing Was Made For Our Social Media Age
Trump's loud, aggressive tweets can seem laughable, but they also put our lives at risk. Why has male virility become so dependent on social media virality?
Alexandra Juhasz
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Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, chair of the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY, is a media scholar and maker working on fake (and real) documentary, activist media, feminist and queer film, and digital media including YouTube. The phrase "virality is virility" is one "hardtruth" from her recent project, an online digital media literacy primer #100hardtruths-#fakenews (https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/100hardtruths-fakenews/index).