Socolow discusses TV symbiosis with social media with The Atlantic
Michael Socolow, professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, spoke with The Atlantic about how TV news has achieved a symbiotic relationship with social media when covering politics. “It’s not cable TV per se” that matters, Socolow said, but the meme culture that it feeds. Television’s future “is through viral-meme creation and social-media circulation,” he said.