#100truths-fakenews
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Read More: #10: YouTube is a performatively self-aware political-economyYouTube is a new kind of nation-state rooted in, and ruled by, self-aware performances about the rules and truths of its own conditions and practices. Like the internet it is…
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Read More: #9: YouTube is less platform than emerging internet nation-state#100truths-fakenews #9 is taken from John Herman’s “YouTube Monster: PewDiePie and His Populist Revolt,” NYTimes, February 16, 2017: For now, most of the biggest internet platforms are understood as venues…
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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: #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…