I teach a class on the applications, implications and technology of the Internet. When Donald Trump was nominated, I started a PowerPoint presentation on the political implications of the Internet and updated it weekly throughout the term. The term has ended, but I’ve continued updating that presentation. The latest slides are shown below and the cumulative slide deck is here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

The Android tweets are from Trump, the others from staff. Six minute video 221 tweets between election and 12/29/2016 Few of his tweets have shared links. His tweets are like speech, not writing. 51 of his tweets end with an exclamation like sad! Word+! substitutes for visual clues in speech. His tweets are predominantly negative – slamming “enemies.”

Unverified intelligence memos 17 opposition research memos Compiled by “a former British intelligence operative” Each headed “Company Intelligence Report (date/number)” Dates from June-December 2016 (One dated June 2015 – typo?) Trump received 2-page summary with his intelligence briefing Memos in PDF format

Unclassified intelligence report Vladimir V. Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election,” and turned from seeking to “denigrate” Hillary Clinton to developing “a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released on Friday a report that detailed what it called a Russian campaign to influence the election. The report is the unclassified summary of a highly sensitive assessment from American intelligence and law enforcement agencies. JAN. 6, 2017 Source Report in PDF format

Trump’s reactions to the two previous slides Trump vehemently denies the unverified memos, as shown here, but now accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election. Source

Note on my PowerPoint style Few words Images Links to supporting material Annotation “Stop sign" questions To prepare for teaching, I read the supporting material and then speak extemporaneously. I let the students know that they are responsible for reading the annotations (like this one) accompanying the slide, following and reading the linked material and attempting to answer the “stop sign” questions. Follow the “Source” link for more on the way I use PowerPoint slides. Source