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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Add the tendency to use false "either/or" comparisons to deflect attention or deny importance of dynamics: why it all feels so discouraging.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/806193615726845952 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Analysis killer=Conflating "everything has antecedents" and "phenomena may resemble one other" with "therefore nothing new/same mechanisms".
      1 reply 11 retweets 40 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      How can you worry about, say, "fake news" when there is also.. This is "eat your vegetables; kids are starving" argument. Does it ever work?

      1 reply 4 retweets 10 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Also baffled that people can argue that what happened this election with hacks and misinformation was just same-old, same-old.

      3 replies 3 retweets 16 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
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      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Luc Dockendorf

      Yep. "You are a hypocrite" is fine and may well be true, but doesn't negate a point or erase a dynamic.https://twitter.com/LucDockendorf/status/808318115578867713 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Luc Dockendorf @LucDockendorf
      Replying to @zeynep
      also, Whataboutism. Scourge of rational debate since the invention of both rationality and debate, presumably.
      2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Most of what I'm seeing is Pope Leo X redux. "Printing press? No big deal. Same-old, same-old. Folks always had objections to indulgences."

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Twitter should add option; See 200 characters of a tweet; click to open more, at least a para. Still, the problem is more than length.

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      All this, however, is fueled by the attention/click economy. False comparisons create conflict, thus a better narrative—if worse analyses.

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      It's the same impulse that made media turn elections into horse-race; better drama, better readership. Online economy just accelerates this.

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016

      I'm mulling turning to long-form only; I don't mind arguments at all but "was it X or Y" is not what anyone should waste time on.

      6:42 AM - 12 Dec 2016
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
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          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Patrick Marlborough

          I'm published fine now but key things that got rejected were when I refused to turn idea conflict into personal one.https://twitter.com/Cormac_McCafe/status/808321490269544449 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Patrick MarlboroughVerified account @Cormac_McCafe
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          it's so hard when you are a broke freelancer and editors keep asking for it
          2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Dec 2016
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          ^I have a day job so I have the luxury of refusal; I do my best to avoid unnecessary narrative tension in analyses. Should do even less.

          1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
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