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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher
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The printing press brought in a new Christian sect with protestant reforms throughout europe, with the Catholic status quo completely upended.
Consumer radio was then pivotal to the rise of fascism and communism throughout all... See more
The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense,
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Can there be a connection between online universities and the serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East? I contend that there is.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
accordance with the latest instructions from above. Democratic societies that employ powerful surveillance technology therefore need to beware of the extremes of both over-rigidity and over-pliability. Consider, for example, a national health-care system that deploys algorithms to monitor my health. At one extreme, the system could take an overly
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However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,
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(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of
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