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    <title>The Most Arrogant Science Book Ever Written - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-18T13:57:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- As the person who alerted me to this put it, the sincerest form of flattery.  (I am credited with authoring the review at the beginning, so I suppose I don't have _too_ much to complain about, and sending a take-down notice would just be churlish.)  But the idea that it's worth someone's while to narrate a book review I wrote in 2002, because it gets hundreds of thousands of views, is very strange to me (to put it mildly).]]></description>
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    <title>The Case Against Social Media is Stronger Than You Think</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is a thing of (deeply nerdy) beauty.

(My "market failures" tag is not quite fair, of course.)]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- 1981, man.
(I remember reading this book in college, '91 or '92, and finding it an astonishing mixture of prescience and that's-not-how-it-turned-out even then...  I'm tempted to track down a copy and re-read it in my copious spare time.)]]></description>
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    <title>Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T13:01:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while scholars rightly identify the effects of online public shaming (OPS), they misidentify the cause. Rather than solely a problem of scale, OPS’s effects are also shaped by the network structure within which they take place. In this article, I argue that the social conditions necessary for productive public shaming are more likely to obtain in a closed social network structure. Using the cases of Twitter, Wikipedia, and Reddit, I show how the design of social media platforms facilitates different network structures among users, with differing results for OPS. In evaluating OPS by way of network structure, I argue, we can not only better understand why OPS works productively in some cases and not in others, but also derive lessons for how to deploy, discuss, and respond to it more effectively."

]]></description>
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    <title>Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech | Knight First Amendment Institute</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-28T14:37:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Mike Masnick in 2019.
--- I don't disagree that shifting back from platforms to protocols would, in many ways, make for a healthier Internet.  But it's striking to me that this essay (like, I feel, most similar pieces, making similar pleas) fails to really reckon with a couple of basic points:
1. There are economies of scale in _running_ an online service, even if it had an open protocol at its base.  Think just of fighting spam (and, IMHO, spam is ultimately what killed Usenet).  (I used to think otherwise, back in the early- to mid- '90s, and some stuff I wrote then to that effect might even still be online somewhere, but I was very, very wrong.)
2. Normal people do not want to spend a lot of time comparison-shopping service providers.
These two together are going to tend to re-create centralization spontaneously, daily, hourly, and on a mass scale.  One could imagine _regulatory_ approaches to counter that, but crafting and implementing the regulation would be tricky.  And the imagination of these essays does not even go there.  Instead, it being 2019, the author makes some hopeful noises at using crypto coins (!) to support decentralized protocols.]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:redecentralization"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.versobooks.com/products/3234-scam">
    <title>Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds | Verso Books</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-08T15:33:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.versobooks.com/products/3234-scam</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A probing investigation of Southeast Asia’s online scam industry – told through the voices of survivors
"Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region’s online scam industry. Revealed are the appalling working conditions — akin to modern slavery — in the hundreds of prisonlike compounds that have mushroomed throughout multiple countries. The result is a shocking exposé of victims forced to be perpetrators, a tragic modern tale."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted fraud crime globalization networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:afd057db07f0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/07/07/sean-turnbull-sgtreport-social-media/">
    <title>How Sean Turnbull made a career at SGT Report anonymously amplifying dark plots - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-10T14:02:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/07/07/sean-turnbull-sgtreport-social-media/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read conspiracy_theories networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator tab_closure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3c11bd5e97a6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w32896">
    <title>(Dis)Information Wars | NBER</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-08T21:27:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w32896</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Over the past decade, social media platforms have emerged as prominent vehicles for displaying dissent. In response, various actors have increasingly spread fake news on these platforms to impair the opposition—the (dis)information war. We analyze a methodology to identify disinformation using network-based characteristics of the news initiators, and use data from Twitter (now X) to assess the effectiveness of this method in limiting the spread of disinformation. We find that it detects at least 85% of verified instances of disinformation without misidentifying any true news, and reduces both account engagement and lifespan of disinformation by at least a factor of two, highlighting the importance of swift discovery of disinformation to interrupt its exponential spread."

--- Much will depend here on the characteristics of "verified instances of disinformation" (i.e., who's doing the verifying, and what do they ignore?).]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB epidemiology_of_representations networked_life color_me_skeptical economistic_imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6fdde715c68f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:color_me_skeptical"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.noemamag.com/the-great-decentralization/">
    <title>The Great Social Media Decentralization</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-15T19:40:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.noemamag.com/the-great-decentralization/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Talks up federation etc.; first place I've seen doing so which acknowledges economies-of-scale in many forms of moderation.  ETA: cf. [https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f61ba2d2ae98]
--- Should be read in conjunction with [https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b0f1d30c1a07]]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_media networked_life have_read redecentralization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b16e69404370/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis">
    <title>We're getting the social media crisis wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-09T15:05:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I think HF is mostly on target here (it'd be surprising if I didn't), but I think could be improved on.
(1) The distribution of output (# of posts) etc. over users is strongly right-skewed.  Even if everyone's content is equally engaging, and equally likely to be encountered, this will lead to a small minority having a really disproportionate impact on what people perceive in their feeds.
(2) Connectivity is _also_ strongly right-skewed.  This is somewhat endogenous to algorithmic choices [https://kieranhealy.org/files/drafts/performativity.pdf] but not entirely.)
(3) Volume of output, and connectivity, are at the very least not _negatively_ associated.  (I'd be astonished if they're not positively associated but I can't immediately lay hands on relevant figures.)
(4) People who write a lot are _weird_.  As a sub-population, they are, let us say, enriched for those who are obsessed with niche interests.  This of course continues HF's analogy to porn; "Proof is left as an exercise for the reader's killfile", as we used to say on Usenet.
(Someone sufficiently flame-proof could make a genuinely valuable study of this point by scraping the various fora for written erotica and doing automated content analysis.  I'd bet good money that the right tail of prolificness is dominated by authors with _very_ niche interests.  But I could not, in good conscience, advise anyone to actually do this study, since it'd be too cancellable from too many directions at once.)
(5) Consequence: even if the owners of the systems didn't put their thumbs on the scales, what people see in their feeds would tend to reflect the pre-occupations of a comparatively small number of weirdos.  HF's points about distorted collective understandings follow.
--- This conclusion could be avoided, maybe, if what those prolific weirdos wrote about tended to be a matter of deep indifference to almost everyone else.  I'd contend that in a world of hate-following, outrage-bait and lolcows, that's not very plausible.

--- Slightly elaborated: [http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html]]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read kith_and_kin farrell.henry re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator networked_life social_networks social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bffaf67bb2f9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X24001313">
    <title>Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms - ScienceDirect</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-11T19:43:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X24001313</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We argue that norms generated on social media often tend to be more extreme than offline norms which can create false perceptions of norms–known as pluralistic ignorance. We integrate research from political science, psychology, and cognitive science to explain how online environments become saturated with false norms, who is misrepresented online, what happens when online norms deviate from offline norms, where people are affected online, and why expressions are more extreme online. We provide a framework for understanding and correcting for the distortions in our perceptions of social norms that are created by social media platforms. We argue the funhouse mirror nature of social media can be pernicious for individuals and society by increasing pluralistic ignorance and false polarization."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB networked_life social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f32d74f8baac/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-online-quest-for-community/">
    <title>The Online Quest for Community</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-05T14:02:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-online-quest-for-community/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life have_read computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a4a224208705/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/">
    <title>Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-19T20:06:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Worth subscribing for?]]></description>
<dc:subject>facebook networked_life philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c4e318b7d238/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/a-glitch-in-the-matrix-of-online">
    <title>A glitch in the matrix of online shopping</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-05T13:38:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/a-glitch-in-the-matrix-of-online</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d63dc3b2310a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo217680791">
    <title>Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy, Carlson</title>
    <dc:date>2024-08-12T18:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo217680791</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on mass media, but the reality is that many Americans today do not learn about politics from direct engagement with the news. Rather, about one-third of Americans learn chiefly from information shared by their peers in conversation or on social media. How does this socially transmitted information differ from that communicated by traditional media? What are the consequences for political attitudes and behavior?
"Drawing on evidence from experiments, surveys, and social media, Taylor N. Carlson finds that, as information flows first from the media then person to person, it becomes sparse, more biased, less accurate, and more mobilizing. The result is what Carlson calls distorted democracy. Although socially transmitted information does not necessarily render democracy dysfunctional, Through the Grapevine shows how it contributes to a public that is at once underinformed, polarized, and engaged."

--- Dr. Bartlett, Dr. F. C. Bartlett, please call your office...
--- It's been a long time since I skimmed Katz & Lazarsfeld, but wasn't the fact that lots of Americans don't engage directly with political media, but get such news indirectly through family and friends, rather central to them?
--- In our library: [https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226834160]]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted epidemiology_of_representations us_politics networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator democracy in_NB downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:21ed3e5bedde/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y">
    <title>Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time | Nature</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-26T12:45:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse1,2,3,4 and their influence on social dynamics5,6,7,8,9, especially in the context of toxicity10,11,12. Here, to better understand these phenomena, we use a comparative approach to isolate human behavioural patterns across multiple social media platforms. In particular, we analyse conversations in different online communities, focusing on identifying consistent patterns of toxic content. Drawing from an extensive dataset that spans eight platforms over 34 years—from Usenet to contemporary social media—our findings show consistent conversation patterns and user behaviour, irrespective of the platform, topic or time. Notably, although long conversations consistently exhibit higher toxicity, toxic language does not invariably discourage people from participating in a conversation, and toxicity does not necessarily escalate as discussions evolve. Our analysis suggests that debates and contrasting sentiments among users significantly contribute to more intense and hostile discussions. Moreover, the persistence of these patterns across three decades, despite changes in platforms and societal norms, underscores the pivotal role of human behaviour in shaping online discourse."

--- I'll be interested to see how they measure "toxic language" (in particular in a way consistent across three decades!)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator via:henry_farrell computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters networked_life in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:045da840aa4d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20110380">
    <title>Global Village or Cyber-Balkans? Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2024-03-18T18:11:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/20110380</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Information technology can link geographically separated people and help them locate interesting or useful resources. These attributes have the potential to bridge gaps and unite communities. Paradoxically, they also have the potential to fragment interaction and divide groups. Advances in technology can make it easier for people to spend more time on special interests and to screen out unwanted contact. Geographic boundaries can thus be supplanted by boundaries on other dimensions. This paper formally defines a precise set of measures of information integration and develops a model of individual knowledge profiles and community affiliation. These factors suggest specific conditions under which improved access, search, and screening can either integrate or fragment interaction on various dimensions. As IT capabilities continue to improve, preferences--not geography or technology--become the key determinants of community boundaries."

--- Submitted 1999, published 2005 (!!!)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator networked_life van_alstyne.marshall via:author in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2356bcbc9ae/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:van_alstyne.marshall"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:author"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/L/Legend-Tripping-Online2">
    <title>Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat | University Press of Mississippi</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-18T20:18:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/L/Legend-Tripping-Online2</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents. Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish science and pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle to revelation is a sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts by consensus powers wishing to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included here in complete form).
"In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pursuits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends.
"Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confronting new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation."

--- In JSTOR [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvcgr] but not in our library's subscription. Try ILL?]]></description>
<dc:subject>conspiracy_theories folklore networked_life books:noted epidemiology_of_representations social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a5ee6fad02b9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-023-04299-9">
    <title>Collective deception: toward a network model of epistemic responsibility | Synthese</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-16T03:15:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What kind of collective is responsible for the deception that follows disinformation campaigns? Jennifer Lackey argues in The Epistemology of Groups that a group agent is responsible for such deception. She analyzes this deception as a group lie, which involves a group misrepresenting its own beliefs through a jointly accepted assertion or a spokesperson. Against this view, I argue that the group responsible for disinformation campaigns is a diffuse network. This deception involves misrepresenting scientific knowledge, not a group belief. Taking tobacco industry disinformation campaigns as an example, I argue that these corporate groups needed a network of epistemically authoritative sources—including scientists, doctors, and reputable publishers—to create and spread disinformation in order to make a skeptical view of scientific knowledge appear credible. As such, I argue that a network is epistemically responsible for this deception. First, I challenge the assumption within group epistemology that assertion is the basis of epistemic responsibility and argue that credibility enhancement is the basis instead. This explains how non-testimonial forms of support and corroboration from multiple sources can bolster the apparent credibility of an implausible view. Next, I describe the roles of different corroborators to show why it is necessary to include them. Finally, I defend a network model of epistemic responsibility for deception. Understanding how enhancing the credibility of disinformation is a matter of responsibility can help us to build more trustworthy communities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB networked_life epistemology deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations social_networks moral_philosophy moral_responsibility re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35460">
    <title>A History of Fake Things on the Internet - Walter J. Scheire...</title>
    <dc:date>2023-10-26T14:12:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35460</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true.
"Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. Scheirer investigates the origins of Internet fakes, from early hoaxes that traversed the globe via Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), USENET, and a new messaging technology called email, to today's hyperrealistic, AI-generated Deepfakes. An expert in machine learning and recognition, Scheirer breaks down the technical advances that made new developments in digital deception possible, and shares behind-the-screens details of early Internet-era pranks that have become touchstones of hacker lore. His story introduces us to the visionaries and mischief-makers who first deployed digital fakery and continue to influence how digital manipulation works—and doesn't—today: computer hackers, digital artists, media forensics specialists, and AI researchers. Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction."

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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/us/bear-cam-hiker-rescue-alaska.html?unlocked_article_code=WJtRMvb9R5YEE_vpoakkniBS6_-q79XnsWdVNjPBkS_zGXFfwSYUQL5FnBk6ub8JVn0e8Q4S0f7krHun7FvLLwguK14kRfMbx85Nb4sNF_4qy1Sy28_7oQWoEzAt0wGiH3rZiryOSeBMj4P5xYAhQzqo2OC1GmhwpX3Af1zkGZ-ksYvBtj6Pi45liaY5SsJ7jfZdhAnptN9jyMgiMpr8yvkLSdgRZB3UiuhjxhwECHsd_w2YAWG4G9m42hCJac_PigyjZx3__FiOOdcV7KJ-_le5rYC5tZcquBOWXCWbmc0ayQikV_icmhckUsXltJ1L3UbVhZUABLBX0lZ_wqJYmQ&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life bears internet have_read the_future_we_were_promised</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/@Rationalist69/the-perpetual-helldump-d9043468f329">
    <title>The Perpetual Helldump</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-10T20:06:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@Rationalist69/the-perpetual-helldump-d9043468f329</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is a good description of the dynamics, though the suggestion at the end that it's rare on the right is bizarre.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2b6e7e866f7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02950">
    <title>[2202.02950] Jury Learning: Integrating Dissenting Voices into Machine Learning Models</title>
    <dc:date>2023-08-10T19:33:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02950</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Whose labels should a machine learning (ML) algorithm learn to emulate? For ML tasks ranging from online comment toxicity to misinformation detection to medical diagnosis, different groups in society may have irreconcilable disagreements about ground truth labels. Supervised ML today resolves these label disagreements implicitly using majority vote, which overrides minority groups' labels. We introduce jury learning, a supervised ML approach that resolves these disagreements explicitly through the metaphor of a jury: defining which people or groups, in what proportion, determine the classifier's prediction. For example, a jury learning model for online toxicity might centrally feature women and Black jurors, who are commonly targets of online harassment. To enable jury learning, we contribute a deep learning architecture that models every annotator in a dataset, samples from annotators' models to populate the jury, then runs inference to classify. Our architecture enables juries that dynamically adapt their composition, explore counterfactuals, and visualize dissent."

--- This sounds like a potentially interesting way of dealing with inter-rater disagreement, if nothing else.
--- The very simple approach to not relying on majority vote would be to see what % of human raters labeled each training item as toxic, and then try to match that, i.e., to do regression limited to [0,1] rather than simply classification.  (This would avoid the unwarranted presupposition, or at least suggestion, that currently-salient identity groups are always homogeneous in their ratings.)  I will be interested to see if they give reasons for not just doing that.
--- The understanding of juries in this abstract is... curious, to say the least.
--- Also, per [https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:eb483f873534], the % difference in incidence of harassment by gender is actually pretty small, though the _forms_ of harassment are different in perhaps-relevant ways.  Similarly for racial/ethnic disparities, though the statistics are necessarily noisier for minority groups there.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read ensemble_methods text_mining networked_life social_life_of_the_mind via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5338/Artificial-CommunicationHow-Algorithms-Produce">
    <title>Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence | Books Gateway | MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-26T01:02:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5338/Artificial-CommunicationHow-Algorithms-Produce</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication.
"Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become too smart? In Artificial Communication, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication.
"To do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an algorithm—which is not random and is completely controlled, although not by the processes of the human mind. Esposito investigates this by examining the use of algorithms in different areas of social life. She explores the proliferation of lists (and lists of lists) online, explaining that the web works on the basis of lists to produce further lists; the use of visualization; digital profiling and algorithmic individualization, which personalize a mass medium with playlists and recommendations; and the implications of the “right to be forgotten.” Finally, she considers how photographs today seem to be used to escape the present rather than to preserve a memory."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted artificial_intelligence networked_life re:shoggothim philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator recommender_systems in_NB downloaded</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai">
    <title>The customers might be human, but the audience is Google - The Verge</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-23T17:13:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me search_engines networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2a45fb374a2b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans/">
    <title>Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-15T19:22:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- One of Henry's best, inexplicably never bookmarked here before, despite inspiring a tag.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life kith_and_kin farrell.henry social_media cultural_criticism philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11903.001.0001">
    <title>Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media (Susanna Paasonen, MIT Press, 2021)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-13T16:51:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11903.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.
"In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a decade: that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with detrimental effect on our capacities to focus, relate, remember, and be. Paasonen argues instead that network connectivity is a matter of infrastructure and necessary for the operations of the everyday. Dependencies on it do not equal addiction but speak to the networks within which our agency can take shape.
"Paasonen explores three affective formations—dependence, distraction, and boredom—as key to understanding both the landscape of contemporary networked media and the concerns connected to it. Examining social media platforms, mindfulness apps, clickbaits, self-help resources, research reports, journalistic accounts, academic assessments, and student accounts of momentary mundane technological failure, she finds that the overarching narrative of addicted, distracted, and bored users simply does not account for the multiplicity of things at play. Frustration and pleasure, dependence and sense of possibility, distraction and attention, boredom, interest, and excitement enmesh, oscillate, enable, and depend on one another. Paasonen refutes the idea that authenticity can be associated with lives led “off the grid” and rejects the generational othering and scapegoating of smart devices prescribed by conventional wisdom."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/magazine/twitter-dying.html">
    <title>What Was Twitter, Anyway? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-02T19:28:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/magazine/twitter-dying.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>twitter social_media networked_life have_read re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07015">
    <title>[2301.07015] Simplistic Collection and Labeling Practices Limit the Utility of Benchmark Datasets for Twitter Bot Detection</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-01T20:37:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07015</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Accurate bot detection is necessary for the safety and integrity of online platforms. It is also crucial for research on the influence of bots in elections, the spread of misinformation, and financial market manipulation. Platforms deploy infrastructure to flag or remove automated accounts, but their tools and data are not publicly available. Thus, the public must rely on third-party bot detection. These tools employ machine learning and often achieve near perfect performance for classification on existing datasets, suggesting bot detection is accurate, reliable and fit for use in downstream applications. We provide evidence that this is not the case and show that high performance is attributable to limitations in dataset collection and labeling rather than sophistication of the tools. Specifically, we show that simple decision rules -- shallow decision trees trained on a small number of features -- achieve near-state-of-the-art performance on most available datasets and that bot detection datasets, even when combined together, do not generalize well to out-of-sample datasets. Our findings reveal that predictions are highly dependent on each dataset's collection and labeling procedures rather than fundamental differences between bots and humans. These results have important implications for both transparency in sampling and labeling procedures and potential biases in research using existing bot detection tools for pre-processing."]]></description>
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    <title>[2206.13102] Modeling Content Creator Incentives on Algorithm-Curated Platforms</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-22T02:57:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13102</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Content creators compete for user attention. Their reach crucially depends on algorithmic choices made by developers on online platforms. To maximize exposure, many creators adapt strategically, as evidenced by examples like the sprawling search engine optimization industry. This begets competition for the finite user attention pool. We formalize these dynamics in what we call an exposure game, a model of incentives induced by algorithms including modern factorization and (deep) two-tower architectures. We prove that seemingly innocuous algorithmic choices -- e.g., non-negative vs. unconstrained factorization -- significantly affect the existence and character of (Nash) equilibria in exposure games. We proffer use of creator behavior models like ours for an (ex-ante) pre-deployment audit. Such an audit can identify misalignment between desirable and incentivized content, and thus complement post-hoc measures like content filtering and moderation. To this end, we propose tools for numerically finding equilibria in exposure games, and illustrate results of an audit on the MovieLens and LastFM datasets. Among else, we find that the strategically produced content exhibits strong dependence between algorithmic exploration and content diversity, and between model expressivity and bias towards gender-based user and creator groups."]]></description>
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    <title>The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism | American Academy of Arts and Sciences</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-07T16:04:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.amacad.org/publication/moral-economy-high-tech-modernism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the end of the day, the relationship between high modernism and high-tech modernism is a struggle between two elites: a new elite of coders, who claim to mediate the wisdom of crowds, and an older elite who based their claims to legitimacy on specialized professional, scientific, or bureaucratic knowledge.32 Both elites draw on rhetorical resources to justify their positions; neither is disinterested.
"The robust offense and disbelief that many people feel about algorithmic judgments suggests that the old high modernist moral political economy, faults and all, is not quite dead. The new moral political economy that will replace it has not yet matured, but is being bred from within. Articulated by technologists and their financial backers, it feeds in a kind of matriphagy on the enfeebled body (and the critique) of its progenitor. Just as high modernist bureaucracies did before, high-tech modernist tools and their designers categorize and order things, people, and situations. But they do so in distinctive ways. By embedding surveillance into everything, they have made us stop worrying about it, and perhaps even come to love it.33 By producing incomprehensible bespoke categorizations, they have made it harder for people to identify their common fate. By relying on opaque and automated feedback loops, they have reshaped the possible pathways to political reaction and resistance. By increasing the efficiency of online coordination, they have made mobilization more emotional, ad hoc, and collectively unstable. And by insisting on market fairness and the wisdom of crowds as organizing social concepts, they have fundamentally transformed our moral intuitions about authority, truth, objectivity, and deservingness."

--- Now add in HF's thoughts from "Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans", and the fact that the emergent behavior of these systems is opaque to their designers and operators...]]></description>
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    <title>The Internet Is Not Facebook: Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing | Electronic Frontier Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-29T03:03:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/internet-not-facebook-why-infrastructure-providers-should-stay-out-content</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- That this is 100% correct ought to be painfully obvious.  ]]></description>
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    <title>‘Goncharov’: The Fake Scorcese Film You Haven’t Seen — Or Have You? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-28T18:57:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/style/goncharov-scorsese-tumblr.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life mythology epidemiology_of_representations the_mythopoetic_process_in_the_age_of_digital_transmission the_tlon_we_deserve re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=hyperconnectivity-and-its-discontents--9781509554522">
    <title>Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-27T19:08:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=hyperconnectivity-and-its-discontents--9781509554522</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes brought about by hyperconnectivity. He traces transformations of the self, social relations, culture, economics, and politics, giving special attention to underexplored themes of abundance, miniaturization, convenience, quantification, and discipline. He shows how hyperconnectivity prepared us for the pandemic and how the pandemic, in turn, has prepared us for an even more fully digitally mediated future. Throughout, Brubaker underscores the ambivalence of digital hyperconnectivity, which opens up many new and exciting possibilities, yet at the same time threatens human freedom and flourishing."]]></description>
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    <title>Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-17T22:17:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_life_of_the_mind networked_life role-playing_games re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://psyarxiv.com/2pc3a">
    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | Free speech vs. harmful misinformation: Moral dilemmas in online content moderation</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-22T15:07:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/2pc3a</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When moderating content online, two key values may come into conflict: protecting freedom of expression and preventing harm. Robust rules based in part on how citizens think about these moral dilemmas are necessary to deal with the unprecedented scale and urgency of this conflict in a principled way. Yet little is known about people's judgments and preferences around content moderation. We examined such moral dilemmas in a conjoint survey experiment where respondents (N = 2,564) indicated whether they would remove problematic social media posts on election denial, anti-vaccination, Holocaust denial, and climate change denial and whether they would take punitive action against the accounts. Respondents were shown key information about the user and their post, as well as the consequences of the misinformation. The majority preferred quashing harmful misinformation over protecting free speech. Respondents were more likely to remove posts and suspend accounts if the consequences were severe and if it was a repeated offence. Features related to the account itself (the person behind the account, their partisanship, and number of followers) had little to no effect on respondents' decisions. Content moderation of harmful misinformation was a partisan issue: Across all four scenarios, Republicans were consistently less willing than Democrats or Independents to delete posts or penalize the accounts that posted them. Our results can inform the design of transparent rules of content moderation for human and algorithmic moderators."

--- All of the forms of harmful information in this experiment are ( in our current state of public idiocy) coded as right wing!  Of course Republicans are going to be less willing to delete or punish!  The lack of contrast cases makes that comparison automatically uninformative.  (If you don't think it's possible to come up with comparable left-wing-coded bits of misinformation you're sadly deluded about our side.)]]></description>
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    <title>The dangerous side of Munchausen's - UnHerd</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-11T16:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://unherd.com/2022/02/the-dangerous-side-of-munchausens/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>mental_illness social_contagion networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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    <title>Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-11T04:42:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.cmu.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/oso/9780197557013.001.0001/oso-9780197557013?rskey=TdoDVD&amp;result=172</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the other party. To make matters worse, they also increasingly reside among like-minded others and are part of social groups that share their political beliefs. All of this can make expressing a dissenting political opinion hard. Yet digital and social media have given people new spaces for political discourse and community, and more control over who knows their political beliefs and who does not. With Democracy Lives in Darkness, Van Duyn looks at what these changes in the political and media landscape mean for democracy. She uncovers and follows a secret political organization in rural Texas over the entire Trump presidency. The group, which organized out of fear of their conservative community in 2016, has a confidentiality agreement, an email listserv and secret Facebook group, and meets in secret every month. By building relationships with members, she explores how and why they hide their beliefs and what this does for their own political behavior and for their community. Drawing on research from communication, political science, and sociology along with survey data on secret political expression, Van Duyn finds that polarization has led even average partisans to hide their political beliefs from others. And although intensifying polarization will likely make political secrecy more common, she argues that this secrecy is not just evidence that democracy is hurting, but that it is still alive, that people persist in the face of opposition, and that this matters if democracy is to survive."]]></description>
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    <title>Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-04T14:03:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The book describes the Internet, and how Internet governance prevents it fragmenting into a ‘Splinternet’. Four opposing ideologies about how data flows around the network have become prominent because they are (a) implemented by technical standards, and (b) backed by influential geopolitical entities. Each of these specifies an ‘Internet’, described in relation to its implementation by a specific geopolitical entity. The four Internets of the title are: the Silicon Valley Open Internet, developed by pioneers of the Internet in the 1960s, based on principles of openness and efficient dataflow; the Brussels Bourgeois Internet, exemplified by the European Union, with a focus on human rights and legal administration; the DC Commercial Internet, exemplified by the Washington establishment and its focus on property rights and market solutions; and the Beijing Paternal Internet, exemplified by the Chinese government’s control of Internet content. These Internets have to coexist if the Internet as a whole is to remain connected. The book also considers the weaponization of the hacking ethic as the Moscow Spoiler model, exemplified by Russia’s campaigns of misinformation at scale; this is not a vision of the Internet, but is parasitic on the others. Each of these ideologies is illustrated by a specific policy question. Potential future directions of Internet development are considered, including the policy directions that India might take, and the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, the Internet of Things, and social machines. A conclusion speculates on potential future Internets that may emerge alongside those described."
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    <title>Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T15:32:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The book examines the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before. It focuses on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, the book inquiries into the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of the topic in the Global South, it concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted networked_life</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d4fc617e68e4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197582268.001.0001/oso-9780197582268?rskey=PzGaKz&amp;result=254">
    <title>Tweeting is Leading: How Senators Communicate and Represent in the Age of Twitter - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T13:50:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197582268.001.0001/oso-9780197582268?rskey=PzGaKz&amp;result=254</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Social media is changing the business of representation and lawmaker reputation building, and this book uses the US Senate to illustrate the constituent-driven nature of political communication. I offer a critical analysis of senators’ communication on Twitter, the forces that shape it, and the agendas that result. Senators strategically communicate a political image that reflects their unique political persona. They have to decide what they want to be known for, crafting communications that prioritize legislation, constituent service, and party politics in ways that meet the interests of their constituencies and foster promising electoral returns. Senators’ communicated, public priorities—what is termed in this book as the rhetorical agenda—offer a necessary tool for understanding how senators link their carefully crafted public image with potential voters. The rhetorical agenda uses more than 180,000 lawmaker tweets to challenge what we know about representation, removing the institutional and political constraints on congressional communication and giving lawmakers a messaging platform where individual discretion is high, the relative costs are low, and someone is always watching."

--- Last two tags reflect my evaluation and not the author's...]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted rhetorical_self-fashioning text_mining social_media networked_life twitter congress us_politics political_science our_decrepit_institutions re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f307ec0f3631/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rhetorical_self-fashioning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:twitter"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_science"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/27/1/zmab019/6427305?login=false">
    <title>Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T04:36:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/27/1/zmab019/6427305?login=false</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The online sphere allows people to be personally anonymous while simultaneously being socially identifiable. Twitter users can use a pseudonym but signal allegiance to a political party in their profile (e.g., #MAGA). We explore the interplay of these two dimensions of anonymity on a custom-built social media platform that allowed us to examine the causal effects of personal and social anonymity on discussion quality. We find no support for the hypothesis that personal anonymity breeds incivility or lowers discussion quality in discussions on gun rights. On the other hand, when personal anonymity is combined with social identifiability (operationalized as political party visibility), it improves several features linked to discussion quality, that is, higher rationality and lower incivility. We discuss the mechanisms that might explain the results and offer recommendations for future experiments about the design of social media platforms."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB networked_life social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4ca1475b5ae5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:color_me_skeptical"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/rage-giving/7D91A09D64D1514AF3C19F6690A4BD75">
    <title>Rage Giving</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-30T18:14:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/rage-giving/7D91A09D64D1514AF3C19F6690A4BD75</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["After the 2016 election upheaval and polarized public discourse in the United States and the rise of radical-right and populist parties across the globe, a new phenomenon in online charitable giving has emerged – donating motivated by rage. This Element defines this phenomenon, discusses its meaning amidst the current body of research and knowledge on emotions and charitable giving, the implications of viral fundraising and increased social media use by both donors and nonprofit organizations, the intersectionality of rage giving and its meaning for practitioners and nonprofit organizations, the understanding of giving as a form of civic engagement, and the exploration of philanthropy as a tool for social movements and social change. Previous research shows contextual variation in charitable giving motivations; however, giving motivated by feelings of anger and rage is an unstudied behavioral shift in online giving."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted networked_life emotion the_continuing_crises re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator to_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cfd52cb06a1c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:emotion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271">
    <title>[2206.07271] Human Heuristics for AI-Generated Language Are Flawed</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-19T16:52:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Human communication is increasingly intermixed with language generated by AI. Across chat, email, and social media, AI systems produce smart replies, autocompletes, and translations. AI-generated language is often not identified as such but poses as human language, raising concerns about novel forms of deception and manipulation. Here, we study how humans discern whether one of the most personal and consequential forms of language - a self-presentation - was generated by AI. Across six experiments, participants (N = 4,650) tried to identify self-presentations generated by state-of-the-art language models. Across professional, hospitality, and romantic settings, we find that humans are unable to identify AI-generated self-presentations. Combining qualitative analyses with language feature engineering, we find that human judgments of AI-generated language are handicapped by intuitive but flawed heuristics such as associating first-person pronouns, authentic words, or family topics with humanity. We show that these heuristics make human judgment of generated language predictable and manipulable, allowing AI systems to produce language perceived as more human than human. We conclude by discussing solutions - such as AI accents or fair use policies - to reduce the deceptive potential of generated language, limiting the subversion of human intuition."]]></description>
<dc:subject>natural_born_cyborgs natural_language_processing natural_history_of_truthiness text_mining via:henry_farrell cognitive_science networked_life philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me large_language_models_(so_called) in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8ab7ffaadfd0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:large_language_models_(so_called)"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/the-academicization-of-everything?s=r">
    <title>The Academicization of Everything - by Chad Orzel</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-16T22:35:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/the-academicization-of-everything?s=r</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Chad being sensible as usual.
One thing I would add: academics, like other intellectuals, tend to act in these ways both because we communicate through writing, _and_ because we live in an attention economy, _and_ because we have a tournament labor market.  (Explaining how these habits are adaptive under those circumstances is left as an exercise.)  Our students might see us doing these things anyway, but they see us doing lots of things they don't copy, or where the copying is not reinforced.  The fact that _these_ habits  are now reinforced tells us something about the situation many of our students now face.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read orzel.chad us_culture_wars networked_life progressive_forces</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5b8a4fe8c707/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:orzel.chad"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_culture_wars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:progressive_forces"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/technology/what-would-an-egalitarian-internet-actually-look-like.html">
    <title>Opinion | The Internet Is Broken. How Do We Fix It? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-29T18:17:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/technology/what-would-an-egalitarian-internet-actually-look-like.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I'm sympathetic, honest I am, but I have so many questions:
- When the people who run local school boards, or zoning commissions, are in charge of local social networks, and they decide that certain topics and/or presentations of self are Bad and Wrong, what then?  (Everyone from every ideological position can offer their parade of horribles here, and they will all be true somewhere.)  You _could_ say that since these services are to be provided by local governments, the First Amendment has to apply, but I am somehow doubtful that Tarnoff, or anyone else, would be happy with the result.
- We're going to have every local library run content moderation/anti-abuse systems now?  With what resources?
- Alternatively, these local democratically run social networks are going to contract the work of filtering out spam, death threats and kiddie porn to more specialized and _hopefully_ expert services, and now what exactly have we gained?  (Especially because similar forces will push towards centralization of lots of components.)
- There is an astonishing lack of awareness of economies of scale in this whole editorial.  (This even applies to the question of _why_ cable service is a natural monopoly in every locality.) 
- Corporate profits, after taxes and depreciation, are about 8% of national income [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W273RE1A156NBEA].  Let's say that these sectors currently have an unusually capital-heavy composition of their income stream, so that a full 25% of income there goes to corporate profits.  Let's zero that all out.  (Of course for something like Uber, that would be a substantial improvement.)  We've cut the cost to consumers by _a quarter_.  So let's be extra generous and ramp that up to 1/3.  Do we seriously believe that if these services were 1/3 cheaper they'd suddenly become much better?  That broadband at $100 is just not accessible in rural America, but at $66 a month it is?  (Pushing rural broadband is a good idea!  It needs government action!  Supporting cooperatives is worth trying!  But wiring North Dakota is going to be more expensive than wiring Belgium for _material_ reasons.)
- Worker-owned ride-hailing apps making all the sense in the world; more power to them.  (I enjoy a fair amount of workplace democracy and want more people to have it.)  There will still be conflicts of interest between (i) current taxi drivers and potential entrants, and (ii) taxi drivers and (potential) riders, and democracy within the workplace will do nothing to alleviate them.  _We will still need regulation_.

--- In summary, the fact that this brief essay provokes this much of a reaction from me means I should probably just read the book when it comes out.  But I might ask the library to get it...]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life internet web social_media progressive_forces track_down_references color_me_skeptical market_failures_in_everything increasing_returns_rule_everything_around_me redecentralization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f61ba2d2ae98/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:internet"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:redecentralization"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://hbr.org/2022/05/cautionary-tales-from-cryptoland">
    <title>Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T21:32:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hbr.org/2022/05/cautionary-tales-from-cryptoland</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7920ef61d4ff/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://web3isgoinggreat.com/">
    <title>Web3 is going just great</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T21:14:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://web3isgoinggreat.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5bec620293d3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10921">
    <title>Subscriptions and external links help drive resentful users to alternative and extremist YouTube videos</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-22T13:11:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10921</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Do online platforms facilitate the consumption of potentially harmful content? Despite widespread
concerns that YouTube’s algorithms send people down “rabbit holes” with recommendations
to extremist videos, little systematic evidence exists to support this conjecture. Using paired
behavioral and survey data provided by participants recruited from a representative sample
(n=1,181), we show that exposure to alternative and extremist channel videos on YouTube is
heavily concentrated among a small group of people with high prior levels of gender and racial
resentment. These viewers typically subscribe to these channels (causing YouTube to recommend their videos more often) and often follow external links to them. Contrary to the “rabbit
holes” narrative, non-subscribers are rarely recommended videos from alternative and extremist
channels and seldom follow such recommendations when offered."

--- Dammit, couldn't this have come out _before_ I taught recommender systems?]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read recommender_systems networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator nyhan.brendan</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:03050a399a90/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:recommender_systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nyhan.brendan"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514940695626203136">
    <title>Yishan on Twitter: &quot;&quot;The best antidote to bad ideas is not to censor them, but to allow debate and better ideas.&quot; How naive.&quot; / Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-15T22:43:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514940695626203136</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Huh, this... isn't horrible?]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_media networked_life freedom_of_expression twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts via:absfac have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1502880a4bca/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:freedom_of_expression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:absfac"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/">
    <title>Social Media Gave the Miserable a Voice - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-13T02:24:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting and plausible-to-me conjecture, presented as fact.]]></description>
<dc:subject>re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator have_read networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fde700d818c1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html">
    <title>graydon2 | always bet on text</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-07T14:13:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life re:flynn_from_gellner the_web_we_have_lost via:yorksranter blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8adbf4cffd55/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_web_we_have_lost"/>
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    <title>Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-27T04:02:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197568750.001.0001/oso-9780197568750</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Designing for Democracy addresses the question of how to “fix” digital technologies for democracy by examining how the design of the built environment (whether streets, sidewalks, or social media platforms) informs how, and whether, citizens can engage in democratic practices. “Democratic spaces”—built environments that support democratic politics—must have three characteristics: they must be clearly bounded, durable, and flexible. Each corresponds to a necessary democratic practice. Clearly bounded spaces make it easier to recognize what we share and with whom we share; they help us form communities. Durable spaces facilitate our attachments to the communities they house and the other members within them; they help us sustain communities. And flexible spaces facilitate the experimental habits required for democratic politics; they help us improve our communities. These three practices—recognition, attachment, and experimentalism—are the affordances a built environment must provide in order to be a “democratic space”; they are the criteria to which designers and users should be attentive when building and inhabiting the spaces of the built environment, both physical and digital. Using this theoretical framework, Designing for Democracy provides new insights into the democratic potential of digital technologies. Through extended discussions of examples like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, it suggests architectural responses to problems often associated with digital technologies—loose networks, the “personalization of politics,” and “echo chambers.” In connecting the built environment, digital technologies, and democratic theory, Designing Democracy provides blueprints for democracy in a digital age."

--- Brief self-presentation: https://www.andrewchadwick.com/blog/2021/12/07/guest-post-jennifer-forestal-writes-about-her-new-book-designing-for-democracy-how-to-build-community-in-digital-environments]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://direct-mit-edu.cmu.idm.oclc.org/books/book/2912/Building-Successful-Online-CommunitiesEvidence">
    <title>Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design | Books Gateway | MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-27T02:42:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://direct-mit-edu.cmu.idm.oclc.org/books/book/2912/Building-Successful-Online-CommunitiesEvidence</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities.
"The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members' commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies."

--- 2012]]></description>
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    <title>DSHR's Blog: EE380 Talk</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-24T15:42:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html</link>
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    <title>Help! I Couldn't Stop Writing Fake Dear Prudence Letters That Got Published</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-14T21:00:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.gawker.com/media/dear-prudie-it-was-me-all-along</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud rhetorical_self-fashioning networked_life presentation_of_self via:everyone</dc:subject>
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    <title>The 'Dead-Internet Theory' Is Wrong but Feels True - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-03T13:24:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Vulgar Farrellism in the wild!
[https://bostonreview.net/literature-culture-arts-society/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans]]]></description>
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    <title>The Society of Algorithms | Annual Review of Sociology</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-03T04:35:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-090820-020800</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The pairing of massive data sets with processes—or algorithms—written in computer code to sort through, organize, extract, or mine them has made inroads in almost every major social institution. This article proposes a reading of the scholarly literature concerned with the social implications of this transformation. First, we discuss the rise of a new occupational class, which we call the coding elite. This group has consolidated power through their technical control over the digital means of production and by extracting labor from a newly marginalized or unpaid workforce, the cybertariat. Second, we show that the implementation of techniques of mathematical optimization across domains as varied as education, medicine, credit and finance, and criminal justice has intensified the dominance of actuarial logics of decision-making, potentially transforming pathways to social reproduction and mobility but also generating a pushback by those so governed. Third, we explore how the same pervasive algorithmic intermediation in digital communication is transforming the way people interact, associate, and think. We conclude by cautioning against the wildest promises of artificial intelligence but acknowledging the increasingly tight coupling between algorithmic processes, social structures, and subjectivities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB data_mining networked_life to_teach:data-mining fourcade.marion</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds From China - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-19T18:55:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- conspiracy_theories epidemiology_of_representations networked_life have_read gardening philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f2f1d81e9a96/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/?silverid-ref=NjgxMzg0NDA4OTU1S0">
    <title>QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-30T03:37:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/?silverid-ref=NjgxMzg0NDA4OTU1S0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The power of the internet was understood early on, but the full nature of that power—its ability to shatter any semblance of shared reality, undermining civil society and democratic governance in the process—was not. The internet also enabled unknown individuals to reach masses of people, at a scale Marshall McLuhan never dreamed of. The warping of shared reality leads a man with an AR-15 rifle to invade a pizza shop. It brings online forums into being where people colorfully imagine the assassination of a former secretary of state. It offers the promise of a Great Awakening, in which the elites will be routed and the truth will be revealed. It causes chat sites to come alive with commentary speculating that the coronavirus pandemic may be the moment QAnon has been waiting for. None of this could have been imagined as recently as the turn of the century."

--- You weren't paying attention!]]></description>
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    <title>Ideas | I saw millions compromise their Facebook accounts to fuel fake engagement - Rest of World</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-23T13:28:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://restofworld.org/2021/sophie-zhang-facebook-autolikers/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_media fraud networked_life philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b0977373498c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://endofsafety.substack.com/p/on-those-who-hate-twitter-but-cannot">
    <title>On Those Who Hate Twitter But Cannot Quit It - The End of Safety</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-09T13:53:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://endofsafety.substack.com/p/on-those-who-hate-twitter-but-cannot</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Network externalities, network externalities, network externalities...]]></description>
<dc:subject>twitter cultural_criticism networked_life have_read re:no_one_makes_you_push_to_github</dc:subject>
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    <title>Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement - Alice E. Marwick, 2021</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-07T03:45:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While online harassment is recognized as a significant problem, most scholarship focuses on descriptions of harassment and its effects. We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike. This article puts forth an explanatory model where networked harassment on social media functions as a mechanism to enforce social order. Drawing from examples of networked harassment taken from qualitative interviews with people who have experienced harassment (n = 28) and Trust & Safety workers at social platforms (n = 9), the article builds on Brady, Crockett, and Bavel’s model of moral contagion to explore how moral outrage is used to justify networked harassment on social media. In morally motivated networked harassment, a member of a social network or online community accuses a target of violating their network’s norms, triggering moral outrage. Network members send harassing messages to the target, reinforcing their adherence to the norm and signaling network membership. Frequently, harassment results in the accused self-censoring and thus regulates speech on social media. Neither platforms nor legal regulations protect against this form of harassment. This model explains why people participate in networked harassment and suggests possible interventions to decrease its prevalence."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2021-05-30T20:39:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The State of Online Harassment | Pew Research Center</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-28T16:00:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/01/13/the-state-of-online-harassment/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I am honestly surprised the disparity in total harassment by gender is so small (though the components by type of harassment are very different in the ways I'd expect).
--- It'd be interesting to see the same people polled about _offline_ harassment (since most of those types of harassment could be done offline).
--- Polling people on remedies seems to violate the sound Dewey-an distinction between the roles of the public ("the shoe pinches here") and the experts (figuring out how to make a shoe that doesn't pinch there without pinching somewhere else, or falling apart).
--- I am not sure that making this a teaching example would be a good idea.]]></description>
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    <title>Can We Please Leave Local Outrages to the Locals? – Kevin Drum</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-26T15:52:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jabberwocking.com/can-we-please-leave-local-outrages-to-the-locals/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the one hand, Drum is completely correct that there is no way this _should_ be national (or even regional) news, and everyone would be better off if we could all agree to not amplify stories like this.  OTOH, there are hard-to-change reasons why fad-stories-about-local-outrages have become such an ubiquitous form, which are unlikely to be affected by moral suasion.  Off the top of my head:
- They are very cheap stories for journalistic organizations.
- They are popular _enough_.
- Social media is a vast machine for searching out and amplifying stories that lots of people can have strong, transitory feelings over.  (Or even re-shaping stories until they have those characteristics, via the usual <strike>game of telephone</strike> application of Bartlett 1932 and Sperber 1996 [http://bactra.org/reviews/explaining-culture/].)
]]></description>
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    <title>Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help American Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-25T13:50:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://snfagora.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rechanneling-Beliefs.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to_read kith_and_kin farrell.henry democracy our_decrepit_institutions networked_life</dc:subject>
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