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All right, good evening, everyone. My name is liz artlip and i would like to welcome you to the wharf. Pick up those notes, if you havent done so silence your cell phones. Feel free to keep them on, tagus on social media, just do it silently. We have cspan booktv with us and you dont want to be the one whose phone starts ringing on national television. When we get to the q a portion i will be passing around a wireless microphone. If you have a question please raise your hand and wait for us to get you with the microphone and sneak into it so everyone can hear you and everyone who might be watc...

A scorching op bedri written for teen vogue and titled donald trump is Gaslighting America well the piece became a viral sensation and lauren was suddenly and in demand speaker and guest on t. V. And radio well she is back in the public eye with a new book and the assertion that donald trump 2016 when shook young people out of a coma and reminded that voting bloc that government by and for the people requires their input so will Younger Voters participate in the 2020 election process and who or what will motivate them to do so so lets talk about this with journalist and feminist advocate laure...

Youve got lots of twitter followers a lot of people you know who who tune in to hear what you have to say on social media do you think that that is influencing young peoples participation in the political process i think that it is definitely having a democratizing force in addition to the harmful forces weve seen of just information and misinformation were exposed to many more viewpoints without a blockade of the gate keeper and that has had pros and cons but i think whats how what are the cons would you say with the influence of social media and getting rid of the quote unquote sort of estab...

A shift in agency and selfdetermination in which young people are deciding that were no longer willing to wait our turn until were deemed qualified to take part in the political conversation right so a lot of let me ask you about that because you know traditionally typically typically young people do have a lower voter turnout rate than older people and to what extent do you think that social media is changing that landscape i mean youre very big on social media youve got lots of twitter followers a lot of people you know who are tuning in to hear what you have to say on social media do you th...

The country talking to young people its the sense of who makes the rules you know weve been subscribing to this kind of analyst authority and it was shattered when when this a possible thing was rendered reality suddenly we start asking you know why had we have taken our political media gatekeepers instructions on how to live our lives and how this hierarchy ought to function i think the downside of social media is that we need to further and besides being demonstrative and not just performative with taking action and have a push for for it to extend beyond the page online and she to take the ...