Le désenchantement de l'internet, désinformation, rumeur et propagande
« Le débat public en ligne est un remarquable révélateur de la complexité des sociétés contemporaines ». Avec Le désenchantement de l’internet, désinformation, rumeur et propagande, Romain Badouard, maître de conférences à l’université de Cergy-Pontoise et chercheur au sein du laboratoire Agora propose une virée en terrain médiatique numérique. Didactique et référencé, l’essai offre une analyse bienvenue pour appréhender les grands enjeux de l’information sur internet. L’ouvrage est court mais le spectre est large. De la personnalisation de l’information dans des bulles de filtre en passant par l’analyse des Fake news, puis quelques passages sur l’évolution du débat en ligne ou encore les enjeux du design, la ballade est pour le moins exhaustive. Internet serait bien éloigné de l’utopie qu’on imaginait, un monde sans frontière et où l’information circulerait librement, défaite des contraintes du réel. Le désenchantement d’internet ne va pas pour autant vous déprimer.
10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World
Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt? 3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4. Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. 6. Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
In this month's issue of Personality and Individual Differences, a study was published that confirms what we all suspected: internet trolls are horrible people. Let's start by getting our definitions straight. An internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response. What kind of person would do this? Canadian researchers decided to find out. [Edit to add: these are technical terms with formalized surveys to measure them. They found that Dark Tetrad scores were highest among people who said trolling was their favorite internet activity. Look at how low the scores are for everyone except the internet trolls! Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. "Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. References Buckels, Erin E., Paul D.
How Facebook Makes Us Dumber
Why does misinformation spread so quickly on the social media? Why doesn’t it get corrected? When the truth is so easy to find, why do people accept falsehoods? A new study focusing on Facebook users provides strong evidence that the explanation is confirmation bias: people’s tendency to seek out information that confirms their beliefs, and to ignore contrary information. Confirmation bias turns out to play a pivotal role in the creation of online echo chambers. The new study, led by Michela Del Vicario of Italy’s Laboratory of Computational Social Science, explores the behavior of Facebook users from 2010 to 2014. Del Vicario and her coauthors explored how Facebook users spread conspiracy theories (using 32 public web pages); science news (using 35 such pages); and “trolls,” which intentionally spread false information (using two web pages). In sum, the researchers find a lot of communities of like-minded people. Can anything be done?
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Narcissism is a family disease | Lucky Otters Haven
Children of narcissistic parents are always deeply damaged people. Because it’s a genetically inherited disorder (at least to some degree) but also because narcissism is a defense mechanism to protect and isolate oneself from abuse, many victims of narcissistic abuse become narcissists themselves. Those who do not become narcissists suffer from all manner of mental disorders, especially PTSD, avoidant personality disorder, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder, depression and bipolar disorder, the whole gamut of anxiety and dissociative neuroses, and even psychoses like schizophrenia. And it’s entirely possible to be a narcissist and ALSO suffer from those other disorders. Being a child of a narcissist is the ultimate mind-fuck. Sam was an abused child, the oldest son of a malignantly narcissistic, thoroughly evil mother. Interview granted to Elizabeth Svoboda of Psychology Today Q. A. But this was a vicious circle. I hate the words “physical abuse”. I never felt anger. Q. A.
How Technology Disrupted The Truth
One Monday morning last September, Britain woke to a depraved news story. The prime minister, David Cameron, had committed an “obscene act with a dead pig’s head”, according to the Daily Mail. “A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig,” the paper reported. Piers Gaveston is the name of a riotous Oxford university dining society; the authors of the story claimed their source was an MP, who said he had seen photographic evidence: “His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal.” The story, extracted from a new biography of Cameron, sparked an immediate furore. It was gross, it was a great opportunity to humiliate an elitist prime minister, and many felt it rang true for a former member of the notorious Bullingdon Club. Then, after a full day of online merriment, something shocking happened. Does the truth matter any more?
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