{"id":1302,"date":"2018-06-02T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2018-06-02T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:14:44","slug":"twitter-language-and-politics-crossing-the-line-to-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/twitter-language-and-politics-crossing-the-line-to-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, Language, and Politics: Crossing the Line to Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will we learn that Twitter is a public forum and we can&#8217;t say anything that we want? Another social media milestone happened this week when ABC canceled it&#8217;s number one show after its star tweeted a racist comment. <\/p>\n<p>We need to bring civility back instead of making insults, derogatory comments, and name calling the new normal. <\/p>\n<p>Listen to my new episode where I discuss the power of language in this political world. And how screens don&#8217;t protect you from the reaction from the real world. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dr-janet-johnson\/embed\/episodes\/Twitter--Language--and-Politics-Crossing-the-Line-to-Cancellation-Episode-6-e1ipcl\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will we learn that Twitter is a public forum and we can&#8217;t say anything that we want? Another social media milestone happened this week when ABC canceled it&#8217;s number one show after its star tweeted a racist comment. We need to bring civility back instead of making insults, derogatory comments, and name calling the new normal. Listen to my new episode where I discuss the power of language in this political world. And how screens don&#8217;t protect you from the reaction from the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,3,36,18,167,176,22],"tags":[180,144,21,186,187],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-media-rhetoric","category-politics","category-rhetoric","category-social-media-literacy","category-tea-with-dr-j","category-twitter","tag-civility","tag-language","tag-rhetoric-2","tag-roseanne-barr","tag-samantha-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mediarhetoric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}