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How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
The cozy web is a turn of phrase describing the growing phenomena whereby web users seek refuge from public algorithm-driven social platforms and services that very often rely upon a surveillance business model. It’s characterised by comparatively small invite-only groups across a variety of applications many of which employ end-to-end encryption f... See more
Cyborg Social
The Online Crowd and Consequences
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
We had entered, briefly, the era of “memetic tribes,” a term coined by Peter Limberg in 2018 to refer to this rapid speciation of internet-first subcultures. Limberg defines memetic tribes as “a group of agents with a meme complex…that directly or indirectly seeks to impose its distinct map of reality – along with its moral imperatives – on others.
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