How social media is shaping the 2016 race

Here’smy original version of an essay on social media’s influence on politics that appeared, in a somewhat different form, in Politico Magazineearlier this month. I’ll be discussing the subject at afreeevent at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on October 8, during Boston’s HUBweek.

The 140-Character Candidate

Barack Obama killed it onsocial media this summer. On August 14, a Friday, he kicked off a steamy Washington weekend by releasing a pair of playlists, one for the nighttime, one f...