"Traditional media is dead. Social media is declining," says @AxiosNews. Their team have created a @Flipboard Storyboard that examines America's dozen-or-so powerful bubbles, which are based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age and location, and mean that your news could be completely different from that of your friends, neighbors, family and colleagues.
How many people realize that America is currently experiencing a hot domestic information war in which only one side is fighting: the MAGAs.
So, serious question: who’s on the other side of the information war now raging in America?
Obviously we saw the government try to become a combatant—a defender of America—by creating an office designed to combat disinformation, but we all know how that went: MAGA declared war on the office and everyone in it and the government backed down.
There are a few journalists we might identify—say, Jim Acosta—but no entire media organizations. And media writ large has made clear its view that high-traffic progressive social media feeds aren’t allies but grifting.
So who’s defending America?
“The information war is about territory—just not the geographic kind. In a warm information war, the human mind is the territory.”
—Renée DiResta, “The Digital Maginot Line”
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@openDemocracy have forced the (so-called) #EuropeanResearchGroup to make their 'research' public after an #information rights tribunal has ruled that as the ERG has been drawing #taxpayers' funds it cannot refuse access to its documents;
Of course, what this will (further) confirm is that the ERG's 'research' is nothing of the kind.
Now we can all see the actual sand on which their 'positions' rest, not that it'll be a surprise
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Parnas: "The only information ever pushed on the Bidens in Ukraine has come from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents. The impeachment proceedings that bring us here now are predicated on #false#information spread by the Kremlin."
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A decade ago, I taught college students about what I called "infotention" -- cultivating deliberate habits, tools, and mindsets to deal with contemporary tsunamis of information. I made a concept map of the topic. Each of the document icons opens separate documents on the subject of the labeled nodes.
Looking for advice on creating a personal archive website!
Thanks to #enshittification I’m worried about losing articles & information & art I always come back to, and would like to create a mini-library for treasuring that knowledge.
Does anyone have pros/cons/advice of a wiki format and how to set it up?
Are there other tools/sites/etc you’d recommend I use for this? Goals: Easy to update, very accessible & as future-proof as possible.
If you think one of the key problems with the development of information technologies (IT) is that it is dominated by males (the 'tech bros') then the news that across the EU (and further afield) the share of women working in IT/ICTs is (albeit slowly) growing (in numbers & as a proportion of the workforce) must be good news.
Leaving aside gender essentialism, might this help the next generation of IT be less phallocentric in its operations?
Billet de blog 💬 59 propositions pour libérer l’information
Cent médias et organisations, réunis dans les Etats généraux de la #presse indépendante, formulent 59 propositions de réforme de notre système d’#information. Découvrez-les! Elles seront détaillées et débattues lors de notre grande réunion publique du 30 novembre qui est à suivre en streaming vidéo ici.
With so many local #newspapers and reporters’ jobs gone, U.S. towns are suffering a profound #information crisis. And that void is often being filled by "pink slime" #journalism bankrolled by #GOP operatives.