Re:I resigned from Twitter
by nprz on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:12PM
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Have you read Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, Public Opinion by Walter Lippman, or Propaganda by Edward Bernays? If so, I don't think you would come to the conclusion that the media landscape prior to social media was bastion of truth and honesty.
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Re:I resigned from Twitter
by datavirtue on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:15PM
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Yeah, traditional media was/is a consent manufacturer. The elite decide among themselves the truth, and then repeat it over and over.
Re:I resigned from Twitter
by mysecretaccount on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:15PM
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Yeah, I cannot imagine how someone would say social media is the "biggest problem of our time" unless they were ignorant to the work you cited, and many other fundamental issues (profit motive turning the planet into a convection oven, for one).
Yes. While that situation was bad, it was not nearly as bad as the completely out of control results we get from social media.
I actually think there is a great opportunity here to fix this problem as SM has made it painfully obvious and visible to everyone, while also democratizing the entire process. (Democratizing manipulation and outrage isn't necessarily the best thing in the world though, but we can at least start thinking what causes it and what can be done to improve things)