۹ اندیشمند که هرج‌مرج سال ۲۰۱۸ را معنادار ساختند... These scholars helped bring order to the chaos

۹ اندیشمند که هرج‌مرج سال ۲۰۱۸ را معنادار ساختند... These scholars helped bring order to the chaos

۹ اندیشمند که هرج‌مرج سال ۲۰۱۸ را معنادار ساختند.

These scholars helped bring order to the chaos. Several studied the fundamental identity divisions further polarizing and dividing the United States, while another focused specifically on the dark sides of social media’s influence on politics. One is a philosopher who analyzes the nuances of sexism and misogyny; two others are political scientists who study the global decline of democracy and whether America might be next.

بخشی از نظر متفکر شماره ۹ درباره نفوذ زیان‌بار رسانه‌های اجتماعی بر سیاست را در ادامه آورده‌ام.

9) Zeynep Tufekci on the baleful influence of social media

Social media had, for most of the past two decades, been seen by many as a politically liberating technology. In 2018, the platforms looked less like a solution to the major problems in American politics and more like part of the problem.

Few analysts were as sharp at interrogating social media’s impact on our democracy as Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina. Her 2017 book, Twitter and Tear Gas, looked at the impact of social media on protest movements, both in terms of how it enabled protest organizing and how authoritarian states manipulated new technologies to cement their hold on power. In 2018, her most interesting work (to my mind) focused on the platforms’ algorithms — how social media’s tool for personally tailoring content to individual users has bred political extremism.

She conducted a kind of experiment on YouTube after watching footage of some Trump rallies, looking into how watching certain videos would shape her algorithmic recommendations. She summarized the results in a bracing New York Times op-ed:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/27/18136625/2018-new-year-2019-scholars-experts