Is Social Media Activating or Repelling Voters This Election Cycle?

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The latest stars of TikTok and social media are not just influencers, they are presidential candidates. The campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have rapid response digital teams that are jumping on every meme, dance, and remix, some which feature the candidates. But are these efforts reaching new voters? Or is the “For You Page” just solidifying people’s world views, but to music? We’ll talk to social media experts and hear from you: what’s your favorite – or most hated – political meme in this election cycle and how has it influenced your vote? Guests: Sapna Maheshwari, business reporter covering TikTok and emerging media, New York Times Morgan Sung, host, "Close All Tabs" podcast available on KQED's "Political Breakdown" feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.1	Sometimes covering technology over the years, it's been possible for me to see social media as a kind of collective consciousness,
1:29.1	a huge cloud of themes, images, anxieties, bits of legacy culture.
1:33.9	This is where memes are born, coalescing out of the chaos and raining into the world down
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1:43.0	Today we talk about how the presidential election has been affected,
1:46.0	even defined by the memes circulating online
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