Introduction

The character of social media itself tends to shape those who are most invested in it in very unhealthful ways. On Twitter, a person can easily identify themselves with the representation and affiliations that they form through their ongoing casual tweeting. In such a context, a statement is experienced less as an inert and abstract proposition than it is as a dynamic action. Interpretation becomes increasingly preoccupied with people's intentions and alignments while considerations of the truth or falsity of statements in themselves gets down played.