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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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wn oral cultures the sorting function canbe performedW for exampleW by integration into a narrative Sstorytelling orbardic poetryTY
The sorting function is also done by mental links from one space to another similar to the method of loci in Western culture. cross reference the idea of songlines
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́herange of storage media operative in different historical contexts includesthe marked stone tokenW the clay tabletW the knotted cord or quipuW the paX
pyrus scroll and the sheet of parchment.
Which others is she missing from a mnemonics perspective? I'm impressed that she indicates the khipu, but there are certainly other indigenous methods from oral cultures.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Facebook could shift the burden of proof toward people and communities to demonstrate that they’re good actors—and treat reach as a privilege, not a right.
Nice to see someone else essentially saying something along the lines that "free speech" is not the same as "free reach".
Traditional journalism has always had thousands of gatekeepers who filtered and weighed who got the privilege of reach. Now anyone with an angry, vile, or upsetting message can get it for free. This is one of the worst parts of what Facebook allows.
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Facebook has dismissed the concerns of its employees in manifold ways. One of its cleverer tactics is to argue that staffers who have raised the alarm about the damage done by their employer are simply enjoying Facebook’s “very open culture,” in which people are encouraged to share their opinions, a spokesperson told me.
- Share opinions
- Opinions viewed as "fact"
- "Facts" spread as news.
- Platform accelerates "news".
- Bad things happen
- Profit
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Why people believe Covid conspiracy theories: Could folklore hold the answer? | Coronavirus | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 26, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/oct/26/why-people-believe-covid-conspiracy-theories-could-folklore-hold-the-answer
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lindylearn.io lindylearn.io
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Peter Hagen</span> in Peter Hagen (@peterhagen_) / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/25/2021 09:47:19</time>)</cite></small>
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Is Facebook ‘Killing Us’? A new study investigates. (n.d.). Retrieved October 25, 2021, from https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/07/is-facebook-killing-us-a-new-study-investigates/
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Andersson, P., Västfjäll, D., & Tinghög, G. (2021). The effect of herd immunity thresholds on willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b2qx8
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Thaker, J., & Richardson, L. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Segments in Australia: An Audience Segmentation Analysis to Improve Vaccine Uptake [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y85nm
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knowablemagazine.org knowablemagazine.org
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How online misinformation spreads. (n.d.). Retrieved October 19, 2021, from https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/how-online-misinformation-spreads
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dl.acm.org dl.acm.org
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We propose a tri-relationship embedding framework TriFN, which models publisher-news relations and user-news interactions simultaneously for fake news classification. We conduct experiments on two real-world datasets, which demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly outperforms other baseline methods for fake news detection.
It was said in the conclusion that the TriFN can have a good fake news detection performance in the early stage of information dissemination because of the interactions in social media. User credibility was also mentioned since low credibility users tend to spread fake news.
This means that users play a big part in detecting and reducing fake news in social media. Let's be responsible to only share credible news articles and report the misleading ones.
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theliturgists.com theliturgists.comEvents1
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THE SUNDAY THING
The Sunday Thing
The love of money is the root of all evil
This week, Michael Gungor asked us to discuss money in our breakout groups.
Money is power
We outsource our power and authority to those who claim to have greater access to capital, because we underestimate and undervalue our own social influence, economic capacity, and political agency. The entreprecariat is designed for learned helplessness (social: individualism), trained incapacities (economic: specialization), and bureaucratic intransigence (political: authoritarianism). https://hypothes.is/a/667dOC0bEeyV6Itx3ySxmw
Indigenous cultures in Canada were disempowered by outlawing the cultural practice of generosity (potlatch) and replacing the practice with centralized power over the medium of exchange: money. Money is a mechanism of disempowerment.
Money is a shared story we tell ourselves about what has value. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/795246685
We translated “ekklesia” as church. It is the deliberative body of the experiment in democracy in Athens, Greece. The people who are figuring out how to live together in the commons. The work of the people. The Liturgists.
The Story of Money
In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency.
On the Media: Full Faith & Credit
Squid Game
People were also discussing Squid Game.
Squid Game was on my mind today before the call. “The reality of the history of Canada’s mining industry makes #SquidGame look like child’s play.” https://twitter.com/bauhouse/status/1449726452098682881?s=20
The truth is that all of the gold that was mined out of the Klondike was under Indigenous land. There was no treaty with any of Indigenous peoples in the Yukon.
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imaginaxiom.com imaginaxiom.comListen1
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However, we know that money is a fiction, a story that we tell ourselves. Money is a story about what and who has value. This scale of human value that we call money is fake. But if enough people believe it, that idea of money becomes our reality.
On the Media
The Story of Money
Full Faith & Credit
In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency.
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In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency.
The Story of Money
Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered a financial meltdown from which the world has yet to fully recover. The following month, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto introduced BitCoin, the first cryptocurrency. Before our eyes, the very architecture of money was evolving — potentially changing the world in the process. In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency.
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Iacobucci, G. (2021). Covid and flu: What do the numbers tell us about morbidity and deaths? BMJ, n2514. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2514
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nationalpost.com nationalpost.com
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‘Error in judgement’: CBC Edmonton regrets mannequin’s use in COVID-19 news report | National Post. (n.d.). Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/error-in-judgement-cbc-edmonton-regrets-mannequins-use-in-covid-19-news-report?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1634226060-1
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Yowei gets a tip about Russian trolls in Stockton, California and falls down a hole of swirling conspiracy theories.
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www.kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com
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A podcast about journalism with a purpose.
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www.lewispants.com www.lewispants.com
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The podcast focuses on the troubled history of “objectivity” and how it has been used to gatekeep and exclude people of color, queer and trans people, and people organizing for their labor rights and communities.
I learned about this podcast through Sandy and Nora.
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From a six hour service outage to a senate whistleblower hearing, the PR disasters keep mounting for Facebook.
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Grierson, J., Milmo, D., & Farah, H. (2021, October 8). Revealed: Anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/08/revealed-anti-vaccine-tiktok-videos-viewed-children-as-young-as-nine-covid
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Former anti-vax Edson woman shares husband’s COVID-19 ICU horror story | Edmonton Journal. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2021, from https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/former-anti-vax-edson-woman-shares-husbands-covid-19-icu-horror-story
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Shematologist, MD on Twitter: “How it started. How it’s going. Https://t.co/il5DWFm11W” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved October 10, 2021, from https://twitter.com/acweyand/status/1442304094945873922
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Before the use of computers, scientific knowledge was mainly recorded on paper, using three forms of notation: written language, images, and tables. Written text combines plain language, domain-specific vocabulary, and shorthand notation such as mathematical formulas. Images include both drawings and observations captured in photographs, radiographs, etc. Tables represent datasets, which are most often numerical.
On the relationship between media, representation, communication and thinking, this part remembers me of Bret's Victor Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
In some talk, I don't remember if this one, Victor says that using printing media as the main medium for communication is kind of an historical accident. It could be sound, or other media as main representation/communication vehicle.
On my own memories, I remember thinking the relationship between representation and processing/cognition in my early undergrad years as a freshmen, when I saw the two notations for derivates (Leibnitz's and Newton's) and how both make some kind of operations easier (or not). The example I came with, to explain such insight to my postgrad education sciences students later, without appealing to calculus was multiplying in roman numbers versus in arabic ones (and example I would find years later is also employed by Victor)
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How to Create a Social Media Platform: Technologies, Features, and Cost
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Sutton, J. (2018). Health Communication Trolls and Bots Versus Public Health Agencies’ Trusted Voices. American Journal of Public Health, 108(10), 1281–1282. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304661
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Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2018). See Something, Say Something: Correction of Global Health Misinformation on Social Media. Health Communication, 33(9), 1131–1140. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1331312
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Drawing from his own experiences fighting for the French resistance against the Vichy regime, Ellul offers a unique insight into the propaganda machine.
Why is Jacques Ellul believable when he takes a psychological and sociological approach to understanding propaganda? Because he lived through the Nazi invasion of his own country and became a leader in resistance to the Vichy regime.
As we live in times when populist movements are outsourcing influence, capacity, and agency to authoritarian leaders who purport to be able to solve our problems, we are horrified to realize that we also have been merely following orders in the work to imagine, design, and build the fascist architecture of modern society.
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Kington, R. S., Arnesen, S., Chou, W.-Y. S., Curry, S. J., Lazer, D., & Villarruel, and A. M. (2021). Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Principles and Attributes. NAM Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.31478/202107a
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2021). Nudging social media sharing towards accuracy. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tp6vy
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Shahsavari, S., Holur, P., Wang, T., Tangherlini, T. R., & Roychowdhury, V. (2020). Conspiracy in the time of corona: automatic detection of emerging COVID-19 conspiracy theories in social media and the news. Journal of Computational Social Science, 3(2), 279–317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-020-00086-5
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Heller, F. (2021, January 13). Spain to launch Whatsapp channel to fight vaccine disinformation. Www.Euractiv.Com. https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/spain-to-launch-whatsapp-channel-to-fight-vaccine-disinformation/
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They Claimed the Covid Vaccine Made Them Sick—and Went Viral. (n.d.). Wired. Retrieved March 1, 2021, from https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-vaccine-misinformation-facebook
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Quantifying The COVID-19 Public Health Media Narrative Through TV & Radio News Analysis – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/quantifying-the-covid-19-public-health-media-narrative-through-tv-radio-news-analysis/
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Using The Global Quotation Graph To Examine Statements About Covid-19 Vaccination And Infertility Or Bell’s Palsy – The GDELT Project. (n.d.). Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://blog.gdeltproject.org/using-the-global-quotation-graph-to-examine-statements-about-covid-19-vaccination-and-infertility-or-bells-palsy/
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Misinformation Alerts - Public Health Communications Collaborative. (n.d.). Public Health Communication Collaborative. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://publichealthcollaborative.org/misinformation-alerts/
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Vraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (n.d.). Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively and Responsively - Volume 27, Number 2—February 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2702.203139
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tagesschau.de. (n.d.). Entwicklung von Impfstoffen: Komplett verdrehte Aussage. tagesschau.de. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/merck-impfstoff-immunitaet-105.html
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CNN, A. by J. G. (n.d.). Analysis: Xi Jinping touts coronavirus cooperation as China persists with vaccine disinformation push. CNN. Retrieved March 1, 2021, from https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/asia/xi-jinping-china-vaccine-intl-hnk/index.html
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Mazumdar, S., & Thakker, D. (2020). Citizen Science on Twitter: Using Data Analytics to Understand Conversations and Networks. Future Internet, 12(12), 210. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12120210
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Merchant, R. M., & Lurie, N. (2020). Social Media and Emergency Preparedness in Response to Novel Coronavirus. JAMA, 323(20), 2011–2012. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.4469
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Mena, P. (2020). Cleaning Up Social Media: The Effect of Warning Labels on Likelihood of Sharing False News on Facebook. Policy & Internet, 12(2), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.214
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Vraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2017). Using Expert Sources to Correct Health Misinformation in Social Media. Science Communication, 39(5), 621–645. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547017731776
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YouTube is banning Joseph Mercola and a handful of other anti-vaccine activists—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/29/youtube-ban-joseph-mercola/
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YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines | YouTube | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/29/youtube-to-remove-misinformation-videos-about-all-vaccines
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Clift, A. K., von Ende, A., Tan, P. S., Sallis, H. M., Lindson, N., Coupland, C. A. C., Munafò, M. R., Aveyard, P., Hippisley-Cox, J., & Hopewell, J. C. (2021). Smoking and COVID-19 outcomes: An observational and Mendelian randomisation study using the UK Biobank cohort. Thorax, thoraxjnl-2021-217080. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217080
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Anti UX UX Club mentioned Tortoise.
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Tortoise is a response to two problems The daily noise: we are overwhelmed by information. The problem isn’t just fake news or junk news, because there’s a lot that’s good – it’s just that there’s so much of it, and so much of it is the same. In a hurry, partial and confusing. Too many newsrooms chasing the news, but missing the story.The power gap: the divide between the powerful and the powerless is widening. We feel locked out. Alarmed by the lack of vision, hungry for leadership in business, technology and society. We believe in responsibility; we care about dignity.
Slow journalism: a refreshing change in the approach to the news.
I first learned about Tortoise from the Anti UX UX Club on Twitter.
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WHO Health Alert brings COVID-19 facts to billions via WhatsApp. (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-health-alert-brings-covid-19-facts-to-billions-via-whatsapp
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www.nicholascarr.com www.nicholascarr.com
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Nicholas Carr explores cognitive science and media theory to understand how technology is change our brains through neuroplasticity.
Ezra Klein was in conversation with Richard Powers regarding his recent book, Bewilderment, exploring the way technology changes us by changing our environment. The medium is the message.
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Lazić, A., & Zezelj, I. (2021). Negativity In Online News Coverage Of Vaccination Rates In Serbia: A Content Analysis. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nqjb9
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Dupuy, B. (2021, August 6). COVID-19 vaccines offer benefits even to those previously infected. AP NEWS. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-130053228518
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Managing the COVID-19 infodemic: Promoting healthy behaviours and mitigating the harm from misinformation and disinformation. (n.d.). Retrieved September 29, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news/item/23-09-2020-managing-the-covid-19-infodemic-promoting-healthy-behaviours-and-mitigating-the-harm-from-misinformation-and-disinformation
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Are women generally more interested in other social causes besides online surveillance and the negative cultural impacts of social media companies?
Most of the advanced researchers I seen on these topics are almost all women: Safiya Umoja Noble, Meredith Broussard, Ruha Benjamin, Cathy O'Neil, Shoshana Zuboff, Joan Donovan, danah boyd,Tressie McMillan Cottom, to name but a few.
The tougher part is that they are all fighting against problems created primarily by privileged, cis-gender, white men.
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Mixing science and art to make the truth more interesting than lies. (n.d.). Retrieved September 28, 2021, from https://theconversation.com/mixing-science-and-art-to-make-the-truth-more-interesting-than-lies-100221?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
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Disinformation and Disease: Social Media and the Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (n.d.). Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved September 28, 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/blog/disinformation-and-disease-social-media-and-ebola-epidemic-democratic-republic-congo
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Ben Collins on Twitter: “A quick thread: It’s hard to explain just how radicalized ivermectin and antivax Facebook groups have become in the last few weeks. They’re now telling people who get COVID to avoid the ICU and treat themselves, often by nebulizing hydrogen peroxide. So, how did we get here?” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 26, 2021, from https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1441395300002848769?s=20
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Jamison, A. M., Broniatowski, D. A., Dredze, M., Sangraula, A., Smith, M. C., & Quinn, S. C. (2020). Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ on Twitter. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-38
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Chan, M. S., Jamieson, K. H., & Albarracin, D. (2020). Prospective associations of regional social media messages with attitudes and actual vaccination: A big data and survey study of the influenza vaccine in the United States. Vaccine, 38(40), 6236–6247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.07.054
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At least 44 dead from drinking toxic alcohol in Iran after coronavirus cure rumor. (n.d.). Usatoday. Retrieved September 24, 2021, from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/10/44-dead-iran-drinking-toxic-alcohol-fake-coronavirus-cure/5009761002/
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Spencer, C. (2021, September 23). No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccinated-arent-just-as-likely-to-spread-covid/620161/
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Ciaunica, A., McEllin, L., Kiverstein, J., Gallese, V., Hohwy, J., & Wozniak, M. (2021). Zoomed out? Depersonalization is Related to Increased Digital Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8jver
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LinkedIn Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
B2B VS B2C
platform specific strategy needed
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awareness, consideration and decision.
video content objective
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brand’s story.
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Frustration for New Zealand returnees as Covid quarantine waiting list hits 30,000 | New Zealand | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved September 21, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/21/frustration-for-new-zealand-returnees-as-quarantine-spots-snapped-up-in-just-two-hours
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For better or worse, our brains seem activated by conflict.
How might we use the fact that are brains are activated by conflict to potentially make the social media space better (healthier)?
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Buzzwords for understanding the new internet
Importance of words (neologisms) for helping us to communicate.
retweets as a means of bringing new faces into your stream to expand your in-group.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks </span> in Epeus' epigone: Publics, Flow, Phatic, Tummeling and Out-groups - New Words You Need to Know to Understand the Web (<time class='dt-published'>09/06/2021 15:15:38</time>)</cite></small>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_album
Interesting historical personal document type. This feels like it has some influence within the realm of the commonplace book tradition.
Is there a way to revive these in an internet age and nudge them along with webmentions?
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Bai, H. (2021). Fake News Known as Fake Still Changes Beliefs and Leads to Partisan Polarization [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v9gax
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As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers | David LV Bauer | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved September 8, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/07/virologist-work-anti-vaxxers-covid
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Build commitment After connecting, you need to build students’ commitment. Educationalist Daniel Willingham argues that students are driven by a mixture of curiosity and laziness: they want to find out new things and solve puzzles, but they don’t want to invest too much effort in the process. That means the best way to build commitment is start out with a task that piques their interest but doesn’t take much effort. Once they have completed this task, they are much more likely to commit to your next task. The trick then becomes slowly ratcheting up that commitment as the course progresses.
Students want to discover, learn new things, and solve puzzles, but they don't want to invest too much effort into the process.
How does this fit into or relate to the idea of flow?
What relationship does it have to addictive behaviors like scrolling social media which are low effort, but provide new discovery?
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Just like life, Minus has limits. Try it out today and see what online interaction feels like on a social network designed for less.
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Minus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.
What a great idea, and not just for conceptual art!
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @MDaware: The problem is the leaders, the media figures, the physicians who know better but would rather get in on the grift https://t.c…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 3 September 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1432711694569050119
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Vaccines could affect how the coronavirus evolves—But that’s no reason to skip your shot. (n.d.). Retrieved September 1, 2021, from https://theconversation.com/vaccines-could-affect-how-the-coronavirus-evolves-but-thats-no-reason-to-skip-your-shot-165960
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Zuckerman, E. (2021). Demand five precepts to aid social-media watchdogs. Nature, 597(7874), 9–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02341-9
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hcommons.org hcommons.org
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To the people of 1833 it was new to have a photography museum today we have selfie museums what was new in 1833 is not new to us in 2021
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Sirlin, N., Epstein, Z., Arechar, A. A., & Rand, D. (2021). Digital literacy and susceptibility to misinformation. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7rb2m
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Speculation on plant life in the future. Interesting presentation
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rhizome.org rhizome.org
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not for submission, but to follow
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www.jeremycherfas.net www.jeremycherfas.net
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Have you ever … In December 2008, I came across this post from someone who was on my blogroll, or in my feeds, or something. They listed 100 things that one might have done in one’s life, and invited one to indicate those that one had actually done. I took the challenge on as a lark and then decided that the same list could prompt individual blog posts, so I started doing that.2 And now I’m resurrecting the meme, and tagging Amanda Rush and ladyhope. I hope they will participate, link to this, and tag two more people.3 Of course, if you are inspired to do it too, then just go ahead.
There's something here that sounds like the idea of a friendship book, but in online/blog form.
It's also a bit reminiscent of a social startup in the late 00s called Formspring.me.
Everything old is new again?
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Reuters. (2021, August 18). Facebook removes dozens of vaccine misinformation ‘superspreaders’. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-removes-dozens-vaccine-misinformation-superspreaders-2021-08-18/
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“Fact Check-Video Does Not Show Australian Children with COVID-19 Being Separated from Their Parents.” Reuters, August 20, 2021, sec. Reuters Fact Check. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-australia-children-idUSL1N2PR183.
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AP NEWS. “FACT FOCUS: COVID-19 Shots Not Forced on Kids in Australia,” August 20, 2021. https://apnews.com/article/health-australia-coronavirus-pandemic-ap-fact-check-ba06a8878646c33fb1ff7635a0050b7a.
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‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit. (2021, August 19). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/19/book-psychology-pandemics-steven-taylor
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funcionpublica.gov.co funcionpublica.gov.co
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si se encuentran en la edad entre los cinco y los quince años, deberán incorporarse al grado de educación formal que se determine por los resultados de las pruebas de validación de estudios previstos en el artículo 52 de la Ley 115 de 1994
Edad entre los 5 y los 15 años para los grados entre 6 y 11.
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‘Spreading like a virus’: Inside the EU’s struggle to debunk Covid lies | World news | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/spreading-like-a-virus-inside-the-eus-struggle-to-debunk-covid-lies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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bylinetimes.com bylinetimes.com
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A ‘Brainwashed Death Cult’: The Gamification of Conspiracy – Byline Times. (n.d.). Retrieved August 17, 2021, from https://bylinetimes.com/2021/08/10/a-brainwashed-death-cult-the-gamification-of-conspiracy/
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gizmodo.com gizmodo.com
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Gizmodo. “Journal Retracts Terrible Study That Claimed Widespread Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths.” Accessed August 16, 2021. https://gizmodo.com/journal-retracts-terrible-study-that-claimed-widespread-1847219596.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Stephan Lewandowsky. (2021, June 20). Our amazing @SciBeh volunteers are launching on TikTok with messages about vaccine hesitancy: Https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdSt4fEm/ @Sander_vdLinden @roozenbot @adamhfinn @CorneliaBetsch @PhilippMSchmid @philipplenz6 @AnaSKozyreva [Tweet]. @STWorg. https://twitter.com/STWorg/status/1406671504465670144
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA on Twitter: “1/ PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING clips from a town hall with Arkansas @AsaHutchinson. Q: What’s in the vaccine? A: Here are full ingredient lists: Pfizer: Https://t.co/ZgpaqcIlzg Moderna: Https://t.co/j5uf4uErLB J&J: https://t.co/qsjEO8s4gg https://t.co/OR9sSANR7x” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 11, 2021, from https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1423002451460907009
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Saire, Josimar. E. Chire., & Masuyama, A. (2021). How Japanese citizens faced the COVID-19 pandemic?: Exploration from twitter [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/64x7s
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thebulletin.org thebulletin.org
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How to trash confidence in a COVID-19 vaccine: Brexit edition—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/how-to-trash-confidence-in-a-covid-19-vaccine-brexit-edition/#.YQwD9u6LazM.twitter
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, August 6). RT @MDaware: NYT FTW https://t.co/8Mql3XCweH [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1424466006194352134
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Levy, Ari. “The Social Network for Doctors Is Full of Vaccine Disinformation.” CNBC, August 6, 2021. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/06/doximity-social-network-for-doctors-full-of-antivax-disinformation.html.
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Iacobucci, G. (2021). Covid-19: Junior doctors write to young people to acknowledge vaccine concerns. BMJ, 374, n1963. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1963
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Sometimes also called anacapa charts in criminology.
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I wondered where the group from The Weekly Standard had gone... looks like most of them moved here during the Trump era.
Sadly, this site has no RSS feed...
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van der Linden, S., Roozenbeek, J., & Compton, J. (2020). Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology, 0. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566790
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Avoiding the blame game: Reframing conversations on racialised health inequalities. (2021, March 3). Cost Of Living | Cost of Living: The Politics, Economics and Sociology of Health and Health Care. https://www.cost-ofliving.net/avoiding-the-blame-game-reframing-conversations-on-racialised-health-inequalities/
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Sir Patrick Vallance on Twitter: “Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60% of hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people.” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 4, 2021, from https://twitter.com/uksciencechief/status/1417204235356213252
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Vaccine Misinformation Insights Report: June. (n.d.). First Draft. Retrieved 4 August 2021, from https://firstdraftnews.org:443/long-form-article/vaccine-misinformation-insights-report-june/
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Hosseinmardi, H., Ghasemian, A., Clauset, A., Mobius, M., Rothschild, D. M., & Watts, D. J. (2021). Examining the consumption of radical content on YouTube. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(32), e2101967118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101967118
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Chen, Cathy Xi, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand. ‘What Makes News Sharable on Social Media?’ PsyArXiv, 9 July 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gzqcd.
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I like the differentiation that Jared has made here on his homepage with categories for "fast" and "slow".
It's reminiscent of the system 1 (fast) and system2 (slow) ideas behind Kahneman and Tversky's work in behavioral economics. (See Thinking, Fast and Slow)
It's also interesting in light of this tweet which came up recently:
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>I very much miss the back and forth with blog posts responding to blog posts, a slow moving argument where we had time to think.
— Rachel Andrew (@rachelandrew) August 22, 2017Because the Tweet was shared out of context several years later, someone (accidentally?) replied to it as if it were contemporaneous. When called out for not watching the date of the post, their reply was "you do slow web your way…" #
This gets one thinking. Perhaps it would help more people's contextual thinking if more sites specifically labeled their posts as fast and slow (or gave a 1-10 rating?). Sometimes the length of a response is an indicator of the thought put into it, thought not always as there's also the oft-quoted aphorism: "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter".
The ease of use of the UI on Twitter seems to broadly make it a platform for "fast" posting which can often cause ruffled feathers, sour feelings, anger, and poor communication.
What if there were posting UIs (or micropub clients) that would hold onto your responses for a few hours, days, or even a week and then remind you about them after that time had past to see if they were still worth posting? This is a feature based on Abraham Lincoln's idea of a "hot letter" or angry letter, which he advised people to write often, but never send.
Where is the social media service for hot posts that save all your vituperation, but don't show them to anyone? Or which maybe posts them anonymously?
The opposite of some of this are the partially baked or even fully thought out posts that one hears about anecdotally, but which the authors say they felt weren't finish and thus didn't publish them. Wouldn't it be better to hit publish on these than those nasty quick replies? How can we create UI for this?
I saw a sitcom a few years ago where a girl admonished her friend (an oblivious boy) for liking really old Instagram posts of a girl he was interested in. She said that deep-liking old photos was an obvious and overt sign of flirting.
If this is the case then there's obviously a social standard of sorts for this, so why not hold your tongue in the meanwhile, and come up with something more thought out to send your digital love to someone instead of providing a (knee-)jerk reaction?
Of course now I can't help but think of the annotations I've been making in my copy of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things. Do you suppose that Lucretius knows I'm in love?
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The Daily 202: Nearly 30 groups urge Facebook, Instagram, Twitter to take down vaccine disinformation—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/19/daily-202-nearly-30-groups-urge-facebook-instagram-twitter-take-down-vaccine-disinformation/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social
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nypost.com nypost.com
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Marcus, David. “Mitch McConnell Warns of Return to 2020 If COVID Vaccine Rates Don’t Increase.” New York Post (blog), July 21, 2021. https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/mitch-mcconnell-urges-covid-19-vaccines-warns-of-lockdowns/.
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We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Daphne Keller </span> in Project MUSE - The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work (<time class='dt-published'>08/01/2021 11:18:47</time>)</cite></small>
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Francis Fukuyama et al., Middleware for Dominant Digital Platforms: A Technological Solution to a Threat to Democracy, Stanford Cyber Policy Center, 3, https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cpc-middleware_ff_v2.pdf.
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Every year, in my platform-regulation class, I draw a Venn diagram on the board with three interlocking circles: privacy, speech, and competition. Then we identify all the issues that fall at the intersection of two or more circles. Interoperability, including for content-moderation purposes, is always smack in the middle. It touches every circle. This is what makes it hard. We have to solve problems in all those areas to make middleware work. But this is also what makes the concept so promising. If—or when—we do manage to meet this many-sided challenge, we will unlock something powerful.
Interesting point about the intersection of interoperability. Are there other features that also touch them all?
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Fukuyama's answer is no. Middleware providers will not see privately shared content from a user's friends. This is a good answer if our priority is privacy. It lets my cousin decide which companies to trust with her sensitive personal information. But it hobbles middleware as a tool for responding to her claims about vaccines. And it makes middleware providers far less competitive, since they will not be able to see much of the content we want them to curate.
Is it alright to let this sort of thing go on the smaller scale personal shared level? I would suggest that the issue is not this small scale conversation which can happen linearly, but we need to focus on the larger scale amplification of misinformation by sources. Get rid of the algorithmic amplification of the fringe bits which is polarizing and toxic. Only allow the amplification of the more broadly accepted, fact-based, edited, and curated information.
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If we cannot afford real, diverse, and independent assessment, we will not realize the promise of middleware.
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Facebook deploys tens of thousands of people to moderate user content in dozens of languages. It relies on proprietary machine-learning and other automated tools, developed at enormous cost. We cannot expect [End Page 169] comparable investment from a diverse ecosystem of middleware providers. And while most providers presumably will not handle as much content as Facebook does, they will still need to respond swiftly to novel and unpredictable material from unexpected sources. Unless middleware services can do this, the value they provide will be limited, as will users' incentives to choose them over curation by the platforms themselves.
Does heavy curation even need to exist? If a social company were able to push a linear feed of content to people without the algorithmic forced engagement, then the smaller, fringe material wouldn't have the reach. The majority of the problem would be immediately solved with this single feature.
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Second, how is everyone going to get paid? Without a profit motive for middleware providers, the magic will not happen, or it will not happen at large enough scale. Something about business models—or, at a minimum, the distribution of ads and ad revenue—will have to change. That leaves the two thorny issues I do know a fair amount about: curation costs and user privacy.
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First, how technologically feasible is it for competitors to remotely process massive quantities of platform data? Can newcomers really offer a level of service on par with incumbents?
Do they really need to process all the data?
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The First Amendment precludes lawmakers from forcing platforms to take down many kinds of dangerous user speech, including medical and political misinformation.
Compare social media with the newspaper business from this perspective.
People joined social media not knowing the end effects, but now don't have a choice of platform after-the-fact. Social platforms accelerate the disinformation using algorithms.
Because there is choice amongst newspapers, people can easily move and if they'd subscribed to a racist fringe newspaper, they could easily end their subscription and go somewhere else. This is patently not the case for any social media. There's a high hidden personal cost for connectivity that isn't taken into account. The government needs to regulate this and not the speech portion.
Social media should be considered a common carrier and considered as such. It was an easier and more logical process in the telephone, electricity and other areas to force this as the cost of implementation for them was magnitudes of order higher. The data formats and storage for social should be standardized (potentially even in three or more formats) and that should be the common carrier imposed. Would this properly skirt the First Amendment issues?
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Fukuyama's work, which draws on both competition analysis and an assessment of threats to democracy, joins a growing body of proposals that also includes Mike Masnick's "protocols not platforms," Cory Doctorow's "adversarial interoperability," my own "Magic APIs," and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's "algorithmic choice."
Nice overview of work in the space for fixing monopoly in social media space the at the moment. I hadn't heard about Fukuyama or Daphne Keller's versions before.
I'm not sure I think Dorsey's is actually a thing. I suspect it is actually vaporware from the word go.
IndieWeb has been working slowly at the problem as well.
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Francis Fukuyama has called "middleware": content-curation services that could give users more control over the material they see on internet platforms such as Facebook or Twitter.
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euvsdisinfo.eu euvsdisinfo.eu
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The Culture of Resentment Revisited. (2021, March 11). EU vs DISINFORMATION. https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-culture-of-resentment-revisited/
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osome.iu.edu osome.iu.eduCoVaxxy1
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CoVaxxy. (n.d.). Retrieved 29 July 2021, from https://osome.iu.edu/tools/covaxxy
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delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
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whether the advent of modem communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world in which we live.
But it may be seriously questioned whether the advent of modem communications media has much enhanced our understanding of the world in which we live.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I sort of want the ability to more easily capture audio, annotate and save it while I'm listening to radio or even television. Pausing the media and having the ability to reply it (TIVO and some DVRs provide this capability) and do other things with it would be truly fantastic, especially for saving tidbits for later use and consumption.
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The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot—BBC News. (n.d.). Retrieved July 28, 2021, from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-57928647?at_custom4=23264FBA-EE08-11EB-9330-21BB96E8478F&at_medium=custom7&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Li, M., Xu, Z., He, X., Zhang, J., Song, R., Duan, W., Liu, T., & Yang, H. (2021). Sense of Coherence and Mental Health in College Students After Returning to School During COVID-19: The Moderating Role of Media Exposure. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 687928. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687928
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allafrica.com allafrica.com
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Leah Keating on Twitter: “This work with @DavidJPOS and @gleesonj is now on arXiv (https://t.co/hxjZnCmKcM): ‘A multi-type branching process method for modelling complex contagion on clustered networks’ Here is a quick overview of our paper: (1/6) https://t.co/3jQ2flhk71” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/leahakeating/status/1418150117106978816
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ayjay.org ayjay.org
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Platforms of the Facebook walled-factory type are unsuited to thework of building community, whether globally or locally, becausesuch platforms are unresponsive to their users, and unresponsive bydesign (design that is driven by a desire to be universal in scope). Itis virtually impossible to contact anyone at Google, Facebook,Twitter, or Instagram, and that is so that those platforms can trainus to do what they want us to do, rather than be accountable to ourdesires and needs
This is one of the biggest underlying problems that centralized platforms often have. It's also a solid reason why EdTech platforms are pernicious as well.
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As Astra Taylor explains in her vital book !e People’sPlatform, this process has often been celebrated by advocates ofnew platforms.
Worth taking a look at?
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It is common to refer to universally popular social media sites likeFacebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest as “walled gardens.”But they are not gardens; they are walled industrial sites, withinwhich users, for no financial compensation, produce data which theowners of the factories sift and then sell. Some of these factories(Twitter, Tumblr, and more recently Instagram) have transparentwalls, by which I mean that you need an account to post anythingbut can view what has been posted on the open Web; others(Facebook, Snapchat) keep their walls mostly or wholly opaque.
Would it be useful to distinguish and differentiate the silos based on their level of access? Some are transparent silos while others are not?
Could we define a spectrum from silo to open? Perhaps axes based on audience or access? Privacy to fully open? How many axes might there be?
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Leising, D., Grenke, O., & Cramer, M. (2021). Visual Argument Structure Tool (VAST). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dvfq7
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Facebook Sided With The Science Of The Coronavirus. What Will It Do About Vaccines And Climate Change? (n.d.). BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 11 February 2021, from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/facebook-coronavirus-misinformation-takedowns
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Akhther, N. (2021). Internet Memes as Form of Cultural Discourse: A Rhetorical Analysis on Facebook. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sx6t7
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Stanley-Becker, I. (n.d.). Anti-vaccine protest at Dodger Stadium was organized on Facebook, including promotion of banned ‘Plandemic’ video. Washington Post. Retrieved 21 February 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/01/dodgers-anti-vaccine-protest-facebook/
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Covid-19 pandemic was not planned by Rockefeller Foundation. (16:48:50.595211+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/covid-19-pandemic-was-not-planned-rockefeller-foundation/
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April 30, T. H., & 2021 33. (2021, April 30). Why a Former Anti-Vax Influencer Got Her COVID-19 Shot. Texas Monthly. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/anti-vax-influencer-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy/
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Schmitt, C. E., November 7, & 2020. (n.d.). ‘Be the Twitter that you want to see in the world’. Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 1 March 2021, from https://today.law.harvard.edu/be-the-twitter-that-you-want-to-see-in-the-world/
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What motivated my newsletter reading habits normally? In large part, affection and light voyeurism. I subscribed to the newsletters of people I knew, who treated the form the way they had once treated personal blogs. I skimmed the dadlike suggestions of Sam Sifton in the New York Times’ Cooking newsletter (skillet chicken and Lana Del Rey’s “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” — sure, okay). I subscribed briefly to Alison Roman’s recipe newsletter before deciding that the ratio of Alison Roman to recipes was much too high. On a colleague’s recommendation, I subscribed to Emily Atkin’s climate newsletter and soon felt guilty because it was so long and came so often that I let it pile up unread. But in order to write about newsletters, I binged. I went about subscribing in a way no sentient reader was likely to do — omnivorously, promiscuously, heedless of redundancy, completely open to hate-reading. I had not expected to like everything I received. Still, as the flood continued, I experienced a response I did not expect. I was bored.
The question of motivation about newsletter subscriptions is an important one. Some of the thoughts here mirror some of my feelings about social media in general.
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“Substack is longform media Twitter, for good and for ill,” wrote Ashley Feinberg in the first installment of her Substack.
Definitely a hot take, but a truthful sounding one.
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Early on, circa 2015, there was a while when every first-person writer who might once have written a Tumblr began writing a TinyLetter. At the time, the writer Lyz Lenz observed that newsletters seemed to create a new kind of safe space. A newsletter’s self-selecting audience was part of its appeal, especially for women writers who had experienced harassment elsewhere online.
What sort of spaces do newsletters create based upon their modes of delivery? What makes them "safer" for marginalized groups? Is there a mitigation of algorithmic speed and reach that helps? Is it a more tacit building of community and conversation? How can these benefits be built into an IndieWeb space?
How can a platform provide "reach" while simultaneously creating negative feedback for trolls and bad actors?
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Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.
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A platform like Twitter makes our asynchronous posts feel like real-time interaction by delivering them in such rapid succession, and that illusion begets another more powerful one, that we’re all actually present within the feed.
This same sort of illusion also occurs in email where we're always assumed to be constantly available to others.
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The CDC Should Be More Like Wikipedia—The Atlantic. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2021, from https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/cdc-should-be-more-like-wikipedia/619469/
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Romero, P., Mikiya, Y., Nakatsuma, T., Fitz, S., & Koch, T. (2021). Modelling Personality Change During Extreme Exogenous Conditions. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rtmjw
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theoatmeal.com theoatmeal.com
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Holmes, N. P. (2021). I critiqued my past papers on social media—Here’s what I learnt. Nature, 595(7867), 333–333. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01879-y
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The Pfizer vaccine isn’t 99% graphene oxide. (16:17:02.445440+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/graphene-oxide/
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Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds | Coronavirus | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved July 19, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/17/covid-misinformation-conspiracy-theories-ccdh-report?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Seong, E., Noh, G., Lee, K. H., Lee, J.-S., Kim, S., Seo, D. G., Yoo, J. H., Hwang, H., Choi, C.-H., Han, D. H., Hong, S.-B., & Kim, J.-W. (2021). Relationship of Social and Behavioral Characteristics to Suicidality in Community Adolescents With Self-Harm: Considering Contagion and Connection on Social Media. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 691438. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.691438
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www.businesslive.co.za www.businesslive.co.za
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BusinessLIVE. “HERMAN WASSERMAN: Vaccine Rollout Would Gather Pace If Public Ignored False Information.” Accessed July 16, 2021. https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2021-07-15-herman-wasserman-vaccine-rollout-would-gather-pace-if-public-ignored-false-information/.
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www.cbc.ca www.cbc.ca
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What the World Health Organization really said about mixing COVID-19 vaccines | CBC News. (n.d.). Retrieved July 15, 2021, from https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-mixing-and-matching-who-1.6101047?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Erlich, A., Garner, C., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Does Analytic Thinking Insulate Against Pro-Kremlin Disinformation? Evidence from Ukraine [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4yrdj
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twitter.com twitter.comTwitter1
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Matthew Gertz on Twitter: “These are all from the last day. Https://t.co/psMkSZf7PF” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 9, 2021, from https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1413121265284562951
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Bunker, C. J., & Varnum, M. E. W. (2021). How Strong is the Association Between Social Media Use and False Consensus? [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eyjaq
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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‘Social Networks Are Exporting Disinformation About Covid Vaccines’. Bloomberg.Com, 20 May 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-20/facebook-instagram-twitter-export-covid-vaccine-misinformation-from-u-s.
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medium.com medium.com
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Draft, First. “Finding Misinformation with ‘Rumor Cues.’” Medium, February 25, 2021. https://medium.com/1st-draft/finding-misinformation-with-rumor-cues-ee1355fb82ae.
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www.medrxiv.org www.medrxiv.org
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Hughes, B., Miller-Idriss, C., Piltch-Loeb, R., White, K., Creizis, M., Cain, C., & Savoia, E. (2021). Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation [Preprint]. Public and Global Health. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.23.21253727
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The AstraZeneca Vaccine Blood-Clot Issue Won’t Go Away—The Atlantic. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clot-issue-wont-go-away/618451/
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www.kff.org www.kff.org
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Persistent Vaccine Myths | KFF. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/perspective/persistent-vaccine-myths/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Duarte, B., Shoots-Reinhard, B., Silverstein, M., Goodwin, R., Bjälkebring, P., Markowitz, D. M., & Peters, E. (2021). Using MTurk to Capture Change: Tracking Perceptions of COVID-19 in a U.S. sample through the UO-EPIDeMIC Study. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v5s6w
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www.ecdc.europa.eu www.ecdc.europa.eu
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Countering online vaccine misinformation in the EU/EEA. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/countering-online-vaccine-misinformation-eu-eea
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blog.ayjay.org blog.ayjay.org
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freedom.to freedom.to
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs</span> in re-setting my mental clock – Snakes and Ladders (<time class='dt-published'>07/01/2021 14:58:05</time>)</cite></small>
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Covering Coronavirus: Fighting the ‘Infodemic’—YouTube. (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Po9anfLrA
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Covid-19 Conspiracies: How Can We Deal With Misinformation? (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/sunitasah/2021/01/07/covid-19-conspiracies-how-can-we-deal-with-misinformation/?sh=526aa35b2b3f
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www.justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org
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Would annotations last longer for archived files (i.e., archive.org), as opposed to being attached to the original post (such as this page note)? Mapping the liquid margins of (what can become) the curriculum.
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vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com
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Systematic gaslighting by dangerous ideologies. (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2021/06/15/systematic-gaslighting-by-dangerous-ideologies/
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Dwight Rhinosoros. (2021, June 27). It really can’t be overstated how poisoned the brains of Facebook propaganda boomers are. Https://t.co/eriAt872Ro [Tweet]. @rhinosoros. https://twitter.com/rhinosoros/status/1408933830497648644
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Jung, Y., Lee, Y. K., & Hahn, S. (2021). Web-scraping the Expression of Loneliness during COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/59gwk
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medium.com medium.com
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Jigsaw. (2021, March 17). Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking About Accuracy Can Reduce it. Medium. https://medium.com/jigsaw/distraction-helps-misinformation-spread-thinking-about-accuracy-can-reduce-it-a4e5d8371a85
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science.sciencemag.org science.sciencemag.org
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Larson, H. J., & Broniatowski, D. A. (2021). Volatility of vaccine confidence. Science, 371(6536), 1289–1289. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6488
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Covid-19 vaccine did not kill every animal it was tested on—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/online/covid-vaccine-animal-testing/
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Deepti Gurdasani on Twitter: “I’m still utterly stunned by yesterday’s events—Let me go over this in chronological order & why I’m shocked. - First, in the morning yesterday, we saw a ‘leaked’ report to FT which reported on @PHE_uk data that was not public at the time🧵” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1396373990986375171
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www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov
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CDC. (2021, June 12). V-safe After Vaccination Health Checker. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Jena, A. (2021). COVID-19 and SOS tweets in India. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, S1473309921003558. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00355-8
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252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com 252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com
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The Anti-Vaxx Playbook | Center for Countering Digital Hate. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2021, from https://www.counterhate.com/playbook
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Morrison, M., Merlo, K., & Woessner, Z. (2021). How to boost the impact of scientific conferences [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/895gt
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Mosleh, M., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). Field experiments on social media [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dgmc2
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voicethread.com voicethread.com
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Mentioned by Lysandra Cook at I Annotate 2021
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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‘No data’ linking Covid vaccines to menstrual changes, US experts say | Coronavirus | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved June 18, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/covid-vaccines-periods-menstruation-changes-data-experts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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bookwyrm.social bookwyrm.socialBookWyrm1
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Requested an invite.
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Professor, interested in plagues, and politics. Re-locking my twitter acct when is 70% fully vaccinated.
Example of a professor/research who has apparently made his Tweets public, but intends to re-lock them majority of threat is over.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Anthony Fauci become a supervillain—The Washington Post. (n.d.). Retrieved June 16, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/sullivan-fauci-emails/2021/06/09/8b0724a8-c93a-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html
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osf.io osf.io
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Deviri, D. (2021). From the ivory tower to the public square: Strategies to restore public trust in science. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/w3frb
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Burton, J. W., Cruz, N., & Hahn, U. (2021). Reconsidering evidence of moral contagion in online social networks. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01133-5
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epjdatascience.springeropen.com epjdatascience.springeropen.com
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Baghal, T. A., Wenz, A., Sloan, L., & Jessop, C. (2021). Linking Twitter and survey data: Asymmetry in quantity and its impact. EPJ Data Science, 10(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00286-7
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Teague, S., Shatte, A. B. R., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., & Hutchinson, D. M. (2021). Social media monitoring of mental health during disasters: A scoping review of methods and applications. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ykz2n
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www.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com
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Essley Whyte, L. (2021, June 8). Spreading Vaccine Fears, And Cashing In. HuffPost UK. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-vaccine-influencers_n_60be36b9e4b0ea8a1920d73f
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Metzler, Hannah, Bernard Rimé, Max Pellert, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Anna Di Natale, and David Garcia. “Collective Emotions during the COVID-19 Outbreak.” PsyArXiv, June 8, 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qejxv.
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lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com
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Crisis, L. F. T. (n.d.). Why was it so easy to fool the media on herd immunity? Retrieved 3 June 2021, from https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/why-was-it-so-easy-to-fool-the-media
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Agarwal, A. (2021). The Accidental Checkmate: Understanding the Intent behind sharing Misinformation on Social Media. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kwu58
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Op-Ed: How Not to Message the Public on COVID Vaccines | MedPage Today. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2021, from https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/92704
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The Moderna vaccine contains SM-102 not chloroform—Full Fact. (n.d.). Retrieved May 26, 2021, from https://fullfact.org/health/SM-102/
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knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org
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Downloading a copy of the paper to read.
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www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Covid: India tells social media firms to remove ‘India variant’ from content. (2021, May 22). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57213046
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Milman Parry, hailed as “the Darwin of Homeric scholar ship,” was among the first men to conceive of literature not merely in terms of genre; but of media.
Literature isn't merely genre, but media.
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