Metamuse 31 // Social media with Tobias Rose-Stockwell
May 27, 2021
50:29
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have transformed how we come to a shared understanding about our world. Tobias has been writing about social media for half a decade. He joins Mark and Adam to discuss velocity and virality in information dissemination; how to train your YouTube algorithm; rage tweeting; and how to improve the internet we all inhabit.
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Show notes
- Tobias Rose-Stockwell and his writing
- MUD
- TinTin++
- techno-optimism
- clickbait
- This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
- The Social Dilemma
- The Dark Psychology of Social Networks
- Jonathan Haidt
- How to Stop Misinformation Before It Gets Shared
- Renée DiResta
- moral psychology
- algorithmic feeds
- System 1 and System 2 thinking
- dopamine hit
- dunk quote-tweeting
- The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
- How to Disagree
- moral grandstanding
- episode on The Information Age
- the intellectual dark web
- “The internet is the Freak Liberation Front.”
- the food pyramid
- yellow journalism
- Central Park zoo escape (1874)
- Great Moon Hoax (1835)
- Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Substack
- Plandemic
- Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach