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Trump-Style Communication, Freed from Text, Seen as a Signature Form of Communication in an Age of Declining Reading

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Analysis Named sources Context piece
  • Kim Jae-in said Donald Trump's highly visual, fragmented communication represents a form of communication emerging as reading declines.
  • He made the remarks at a Seoul conference examining how artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and future of reading.
  • The event also featured psychologists, novelists, a literary critic and a translator.

A crude composite image posted by Donald Trump became the opening example in a Seoul discussion about the future of reading. The image showed a warship marked with the U.S. flag firing a red laser at a plane marked with Iran's flag. Four words appeared over it: "Laser: Bing, bing, end!!!"

Laser: Bing, bing, end!!!

· Donald TrumpThe four-word caption appeared on the image that Kim Jae-in used as an example.

Kim Jae-in, an academic researcher at Kyung Hee University's Institute of Comparative Culture, displayed the image at the conference "The Future of Reading." The event was held on the 3rd at COEX in Seoul and marked the 10th anniversary of the reading platform KT Millie's Library.

Kim said Trump's communication relies on intuitive images and fragmented language to reduce situations to simple forms. He said Trump is sometimes described as the first U.S. president to communicate "beyond text," calling him "an example of communication in an age when reading is disappearing."

Beyond text

· Kim Jae-inKim said Trump is sometimes described as the first U.S. president to communicate beyond written language.

The conference explored how artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the meaning of reading and what reading may look like in the future. Speakers included Kim Kyung-il, a psychology professor at Ajou University, novelists Eun Hee-kyung and Kim Cho-yeop, literary critic Shin Hyung-chul and translator Hong Han-byul.

An example of communication in an age when reading is disappearing.

· Kim Jae-inKim described Trump's visual and fragmented style at the reading conference.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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