Smart piece by @chanders. Key to fake news etc. isn't human nature: it's the *infrastructure* of knowledge/truth. http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/what-an-academic-hoax-can-teach-us-about-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/ …pic.twitter.com/hJ3uFkJaGz
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Smart piece by @chanders. Key to fake news etc. isn't human nature: it's the *infrastructure* of knowledge/truth. http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/what-an-academic-hoax-can-teach-us-about-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/ …pic.twitter.com/hJ3uFkJaGz
Infrastructure is indeed key. But, not just news media. Eg. changing parties: ideological coherence, nomination reforms. Also ...
baseline things like Sen rules vulnerable to partisan obstruction. All these things interact. I think Berger & Luckmann very helpful ...
for general view of the issue at very basic level. But that is a long way from the particulars of current situation and practical steps.
The infrastructure point gets at one central thing I think typically gets mishandled in a costly way. The problem is not really about ...
truth and facts. It's really about authority and consensus and the way the socially and politically effective infrastructures have ...
fragmented in a relatively short time frame. I think all the attention on facts or epistemology is misguided and obscures the role of ...
consensus in facts and also is too easily de-railed into Manichean images of Truth&Reason vs the Irrational. After all, another piece ...
of human nature that doesn't change is our rational capacity, even for rabid consumers of fake news.
Great thread; great points. Rational capacity (which needs nurturing) and the irrational and/or in-group based reactions all there at once.
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