Associate Professor in Philosophy, Cross-Appointed with the Women’s Studies Program and a Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR).
University of Windsor
It’s easy to blame current problems with public discourse on the brevity of on-line communication. People are moving away from blogs to image exchanges. TLDR. Limited word counts (such as on Twitter) and the combination of immediacy with anonymity lend to verbal fighting. Quick comebacks receive rewards of “likes” and “thumbs up”. We might mitigate Read more