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Read More: #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information requiredIn a move of admirable self-criticism—one I feel sympathetic to as myself a card-carrying member of the American critical new media left—danah boyd asks “did media literacy backfire?” “Addressing so-called…
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Read More: #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptomsIn “20th Century Fox Gives Real Apology for a Fake News Campaign,” the chief executive of the public relations company Edelman engages in revealing doublespeak. He reflects upon the use…
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Read More: #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracyToday’s media consumer cannot trust the internet, its news, or networks—fake or otherwise. Given the wretched state of today’s internet, skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is a critical foundation…
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Read More: #3: Trump is our rightful internet presidentGiven, as I have established in truths 1-2 (and elsewhere) that the internet is a place where: the true/false dichotomy disintegrates deception and manipulation organize and popularize discourse neoliberal values…
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Read More: #2: the fake news is very realBy this oxymoron I mean: that contemporary (and past) media manipulations and deceptions exist on the internet in increasing numbers and with expanding reach these have fomented crises during the…