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* The firehose/tsunami effect - people overwhelmed with all the noise - "weaponization of noise"??? - confirmation bias and pareidolia are especially dangerous when your data set is so large that you can find patterns anywhere you look | * The firehose/tsunami effect - people overwhelmed with all the noise - "weaponization of noise"??? - confirmation bias and pareidolia are especially dangerous when your data set is so large that you can find patterns anywhere you look | ||
* Fallacy/the law of the excluded middle / false dichotomy (law of the excluded middle is an axiom in classical logic; constructivist logic omits it) | * Fallacy/the law of the excluded middle / false dichotomy (law of the excluded middle is an axiom in classical logic; constructivist logic omits it) | ||
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==Feels== | ==Feels== |
Revision as of 00:28, 18 May 2015
What do we Know about what is Broken right now?
- We have a lot of case studies in communication breakdowns.
- Salon documented the outrage of the day for 2014
- People are trying to apply social scripts which work afk (<10 people, single channel, conversation can't branch, synchronous, emphemeral) to a platform where everyone can speak at one, everyone sees a unique view (unique and incomplete)
- Extreme lack of definition -- previous contexts etc don't inform new interaction
- Derailing as an issue in afk communication as it's a scarcity mindset -- only single channel afk. You can multi-thread in online space. Unless you have the social norm of paying attention to people.
- Lack of conscious use/application of social norms online
- Difficult to see how many people can see how many are participating in the conversation. At best, an approximation thru thread count.
- Ephemerality as a concern of mapping etc.
- There will be predators and abusers using any social network. Good and bad actors sharing the same spaces.
- There will be people who, in good faith, have committed social transgressions. Protect against one and indoctronate the other?
- No corrective measures
- People expect leeway in what they've said and done. Recalling to actual past statements and actions is taken as an act of hostility.
- Desire but resistance to protective measures.
- Stranger Danger isn't a real thing. Been re-introduced and re-normalized. Fear as a mechanism of control.
- Outrage is exploited for commercial gain by people who sell things that piss off some sector of society - new forms of collectively destructive exploitation
- Political space is becoming more polarized.
- Scaled exploitation for personal gain.
- Demand for punishment is out of proportion with any given misstep. (Again scale - disproportionate response. "Calling out" as an extraordinarily blunt instrument online. Call-outs as a weapon ["call in" is a private call-out].)
- Sociopath-empath-apath triad: http://www.sott.net/article/268449-Empathic-people-are-natural-targets-for-sociopaths-protect-yourself (headline is clickbait, gets a bit victim-blamey toward the end, but good description of the phenomenon)
- Consensus arrived at in the absence of communication about it: Schelling Point
- The firehose/tsunami effect - people overwhelmed with all the noise - "weaponization of noise"??? - confirmation bias and pareidolia are especially dangerous when your data set is so large that you can find patterns anywhere you look
- Fallacy/the law of the excluded middle / false dichotomy (law of the excluded middle is an axiom in classical logic; constructivist logic omits it)
Feels
- Internet amnesia is terrifying (Kony 2012)
- Attempting to apply the wrong map to the territory isn't going to end successfully
- Collective memory is fucking weird
- Learned helplessness is a condition to combat.
- Scared to step out of line
- Frustration with people viciously agreeing with each other.
- Feels like trolling and harassment are becoming normalized
- Despair. Does anyone else even see how much waste heat people are generating, good intentions or no?
- Scaling of punishment derails actual purpose.
- People should be able to see themselves in context - their disapproval is ok as the one, but in a group it's not so much
- Abuse of power (many different kinds of power)
- Isolation
- Lack of continuity - changing disasters every day leads to less real engagement
- No second chances, lack of acknowledgment that people change/learn
Gut
- We could channel attention to better ends.
- Can we design systems to combat the charasmatic and intelligent people. or just attenuate their domination, make room for the introverted or not so bright - an equalizing tool?
- Calling out has become performative rather than remedial[/instrumental]
- Fail faster, fail better http://pyvideo.org/video/1563/fail-faster-fail-better
- As a general rule, attempting to use AFK protocols (norms and scripts) online is doomed to failure
- More acceptable online and off to dodge a question than to straight up refuse to answer it
Funny hahas
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDWzGm1W0WY - Diversity of the word 'Fuck'
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w - Trolling at Def Con
Do
- Not answering should be an option.
- Figure out what goes with consent or non-consent (what features, what level of privacy, etc.)
- See: Projects category page