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 …
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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?
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Also baffled that people can argue that what happened this election with hacks and misinformation was just same-old, same-old.
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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 …
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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."
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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.
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All this, however, is fueled by the attention/click economy. False comparisons create conflict, thus a better narrative—if worse analyses.
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It's the same impulse that made media turn elections into horse-race; better drama, better readership. Online economy just accelerates this.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Most of us need an emotional hook for engagement…personal figures supply that. Hard to get Anna Karenina universality in 300 words
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