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How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds
“The circulation of abuse through social networks fuels the psychological phenomenon of “social proof,”19 when people take their cue from the behavior of others,”
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Perhaps the same is true of online mobs, scammers, and trolls. Would they too have less incentive to disrupt if they had more stake, if they had their own mini-democracies to care for?
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
S: random internet denizens were somehow producing more insightful commentary on pretty much every matter than highly credentialed experts and capital-heavy institutions. My question to you is: how is this possible?
E: One of the main things, is that these curated, establishment discourses promoted by the algorithms and sustained by mains... See more
Eugyppius • Visions of A New World: My Interview With Eugyppius
the moments when the network logic takes over-in the mob or the swarm, in contagion or infection-are the moments that are the most disorienting, the most…
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