Michele Lockhart, PhD, is a faculty member in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas and serves as the Director of Programs and Accreditation for Academic Affairs and Office of the Provost. Her recent publications, co-edited with Kathleen Mollick, include Political Women: Language and Leadership (2013), Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric (2014), and Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse (2015).

INTRODUCTION by Michele Lockhart

PART I: THE CAMPAIGN, THE TWITTERSPHERE, AND THE "NEW AGE" OF RHETORIC: TRUTH VERSUS REALITY
1. Seizing the Populist Rhetorical Toolkit: a Comparative Analysis of Trump and Clinton's Discourse on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign by Francisco Seoane Pérez, Irene Asiaín Román, and Javier Lorenzo Rodríguez
2. Of Twit-storms and Demagogues: Trump, Illusory Truths of Patriotism, and the Language of the Twittersphere by Dawn F. Colley
3. The Dark Alchemy of Donald Trump: Re-inventing Presidential Rhetorics through Christian and "New Age" Discourses by Lance Cummings

PART II: POWER AND ABUSE ABROAD AND AT HOME: FOREIGN POLICY VIA TWITTERVERSE, "BULLSHIT," AND "NUT JOB"
4. President Trump's Tweets on the Middle East, North Korea, and Russia: the Constructive and the Unconstructive by Anish Dave
5. The Paradox of Dissent: Bullshit and the Twitter Presidency by Christopher Carter
6. Crazy, Insane, Nut Job, Wacko, Basket Case, and Psycho: Donald Trump's Tweets Surrounding Mental Health Issues and Attacks on Media Personalities by Sarah Smith-Frigerio and J. Brian Houston
7. Habitat for Inhumanity: How Trolls Set the Stage for [...] by Erec Smith

PART III: "FAKE NEWS" AND MADNESS: READ, RE-TWEET, AND TEACH ALL ABOUT IT
8. Tweet the Press: Effects of Donald Trump's "Fake News!" Epithet on Civics and Popular Culture by Dorian Hunter Davis and Aram Sinnreich
9. Setting the "Fake News" Agenda: Trump's Use of Twitter and the Agenda-Building Effect by Rod Carveth
10. Digital Sophistry: Trump, Twitter, and Teaching about Fake News by Bryan A. Lutz