Sweet baby Jesus. It is like Dr. Phil had sex with a hipster and produced the perfect asshole. Part arm chair psychologist, part self righteous prick all obnoxious....https://twitter.com/chrisfurniss/status/971540525147832320 …
but violence isn’t mentioned once in the thread? it’s about building up pathological incel-type narratives
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It is however the same assumption, that some how our media effects us so deeply that it must be altered to change our attitudes. It is attempt to find a lever of control external to dealing with an individual directly. It assumes things that are not true about the effect o media
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There is always this inference of control used to shoot down critique as if it is some iron fist of censorship and it is tiring, we need to be able to critique media that does crappy things
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particularly when we’re talking about how media lands for impressionable people we have to recognize irs potential for effect, and when it is something very ubiquitous it affects the overall environment of acceptable attitudes
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But that simply is incorrect for the vast majority. Media doesnt have that sort of impact. In fact people seek out media that supports, or at least they feel supports, their existing opinion. The media bends itself to the audience not the other way around.
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you must realize that is a two way street also see “Manufacturing Consent”
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I dont know how apt that is anymore. I think we have something way more driven by the individual as the market has fragmented so much as too be able to create true echo chambera. You no longer have tp hear anything you disagree with.
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ah, but that’s HOW it works. i recommend you look into the recent work of Peter Coffin… he expands on the concepts of manufactured consent in exactly this direction and outlines the custom reality it has created for us.
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It still feels as if this is a way to differ our responsibilities as consumers of information. An end result of the very human tendency to trade personal responsibility for the comforts of having someone else do our thinking for us. Also its pretty out....pic.twitter.com/hLBLCsj1gf
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