What are any of us doing when we take up our avatars and handles to enter into fights on Facebook and Twitter? When we post links and frame them with incendiary remarks as though sharing the link was itself a checkmate against those with whom we disagree? What characterizes the discursive space—the space which has aggressively expanded to encompass nearly the whole of our lives, and requires nothing to participate save login credentials—in which an alarming amount of us nourish our senses of self and of tribal belonging?
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