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Read More: #8: FAKE! by DOVEMAN+TOM KALIN+CRAIG PAULL[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8bveD6n1_Y&w=560&h=315] See More: #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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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: #6: today’s fixes to fake news are bogusToday’s saccharine hand-wringing and the too-late fixes erupting from the mouthpieces for the corporate, media, and political interests responsible for this mess are as bogus as Lonelygirl15. Lonelygirl15 was one…
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Read More: #5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web’s infrastructureOne post-election 2016 viral-wonder—the crisis of “fake news” in the wake of the 2016 presidential election—was a logical and necessary outgrowth of the web’s sordid infrastructure, prurient daily pleasures, and…
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Read More: #4: the internet is built on deceptions
Today’s internet is built on, with, and through an unruly sea of lies, deceptions, and distortions, as well as a few certainties, cables, and algorithms. At first blush, it may…
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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…
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Read More: #1: the real internet is a fakeTruth #1 is a deceptively simple start and intentionally so. It mirrors in its construction two organizing structures and conventions of the internet and the social media it spawns: namely,…
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Read More: 100 Hard Truths About Fake News: A primer on digital media literacyShortly after November’s tumultuous election, I wrote an article for JStor Daily, “Four Hard Truths About Fake News.” It began with a preamble that actually had three more truths embedded…
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Read More: Man-o Man-ifesto!I hope you will go see my short review of Julian Rosefeldt’s impressive, spectacular art show, “Manifesto” now online on the Brooklyn Rail. I conclude with my own (wo)manifesto, in…