We never had such easy ways for political operatives or scammers monetize misinfo this easily—to the scale of hundreds of millions of ppl.
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This isn't media per se; it's also peer-to-peer socialization through a mechanism & scale that never before existed in history like this.
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Wrong theory: new mechanisms bring about entirely new kinds of people. Nope. Drastically changed game is where it's at, not changed players.
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BTW, this is a core thesis in my forthcoming book: to understand change from tech, look at how existing social mechanisms are impacted.
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I don't get how people can see billions connected peer-to-peer but also through centralized platforms in a decade and think "oh, same old."
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Politics of Health 😎 👩🏼🏫 👓 🌊
Socialization is probably the most important shaper of humanity; baffles me to underplay changes to its mechanisms.https://twitter.com/lamarshall/status/845272149833236480 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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It's also one of the most understudied process in contemp soc. Lost w/ much of the pre80s soc (eg, role theory)
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You are absolutely correct. Trying to find modern studies is fruitless every time.
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Replying to @StlGal_36 @seth_abrutyn
The crazy part is it is probably one of the, if not the. most important social mechanism for human beings.
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Replying to @zeynep @seth_abrutyn
It is the the most important, imo. Everything comes back to it, so I never understood why it stopped being researched
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Completely agree; yet culture is studied in depth without socialization—which is how culture happens!
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Replying to @zeynep @StlGal_36
Some of it has to do w/ epistemology battles of 80s, some w/ postmodernism and questions like "is the self even real"
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So what can WE, as contemporary sociologists do to change some focus back onto this? (Besides our own research)
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