Social media is anti-social. This statement is not intended to be funny or clever. It's a plain-spoken assessment of social media ecosystems in 2018. The medium entangles identity with ideas. As fact and fiction blur, the cognitive appeal of stereotyping overwhelms cognition.
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Replying to @soniagupta504
It's an inference from my (almost finished!) dissertation. My focus isn't on social media, but the applications feel obvious (and, if I can find some funding next year, it's what I want to build). But let me give a quick summary a shot.
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Replying to @generativist @soniagupta504
Identity conditions experiences; experiences condition expectations; expectations condition judgments of identity. Favorable judgments make it easy to accept ideas of those with the same identity. Unfavorable judgments make it difficult.
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Replying to @generativist @soniagupta504
The current environment bombards people with information -- just way too much of it. To make sense of it all, we're really prone to relying upon judgement of identity (stereotypes) to assess information.
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Replying to @generativist @soniagupta504
Since 240 character tweets are *almost* context free we rely too heavily on that mode of cognition for evaluation. And chronic use induces an over-reliance even outside of social media. The end result is that stereotypes contribute too much to the accepted updates to our beliefs.
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Replying to @generativist @soniagupta504
That's not to say that identity *should* be separated from ideas -- that's neither possible nor useful. It's just that social media makes stereotyping too convenient. We're so miserly with cognition that it induces pathological effects.
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There needs to be *some* boundaries to lend structure to the environment. Otherwise, people spend all their time trying to defend boundaries that allow a community to flourish...without ever doing things within the community.
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