Her previous post, There Are Bots, Look Around, covered the state of play ~2016-17, the arms race has already moved forward a generation https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/ …
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And her post before that, Crowds and Technology, laid the doctrinal groundwork for thinking about this stuffhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/15/crowds-and-technology/ …
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Taken together, these 3 posts are probably the best 101 intro you can get to the state of the information world from a realist/pragmatist perspective, validated by actual involvement
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It's a good read, and a clear eyed assessment. The one hang-up I have (and this goes for almost all discussion around the topic) is that it doesn't place a value on the evolution of individuals' behavior within digital platforms, it treats the crowd like a static entity.
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I, myself, have consciously changed my behavior and I've observed similar changes in a broad spectrum of others on Twitter. It IS a digital public commons. People inherently formed order in the real world, why do we expect they won't in the digital world?
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"The fact that infrastructure and network hacking is time-consuming, costly, and perceived as unambiguously hostile, however, means that a detente has evolved on that front, and pushed active conflict to the social layer." cogent read.
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Good to pair with https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273111 … , and a glass of wine cuz jeez do we have a couple of tumultuous decades ahead of us
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