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Always onlineMathias Klang @klang67
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Neo-optimists vs neo-pessimists
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Blog
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Goo
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End of communications monopoly
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The facebook/twitter revolution
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Normalizing the abnormal
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Is there meaning in this madness?
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Social media…At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and
content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is
the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers.
(Wikipedia, May 2009)
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"Out of this anarchy… what was governing the infinite monkeys now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur (2007)
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Morosov is critical to the “technology brings democracy” approach and is concerned that we are “amusing ourselves to death” (Postman 1985)
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The media sends the message
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Facebook makes you unhappy
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http://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/28893
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The authors
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Source criticism
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Michael Shermer "Baloney Detection Kit"http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/baloney.html
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1. How reliable is the source of the claim?
Pseudoscientists often appear quite reliable, but when examined closely, the facts and figures they cite are distorted, taken out of context or occasionally even fabricated… The question is, Do the data and interpretations show signs of intentional distortion?
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2. Does this source often make similar claims?
Pseudoscientists have a habit of going well beyond the facts… Watch out for a pattern of fringe thinking that consistently ignores or distorts data.
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3. Have the claims been verified by another source?
…pseudoscientists make statements that are unverified or verified only by a source within their own belief circle. We must ask, Who is checking the claims, and even who is checking the checkers?
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4. How does the claim fit with what we know about how the world works?
An extraordinary claim must be placed into a larger context to see how it fits.
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5. Has anyone gone out of the way to disprove the claim, or has only supportive evidence been sought?
This is the confirmation bias, or the tendency to seek confirmatory evidence and to reject or ignore disconfirmatory evidence. The confirmation bias is powerful, pervasive and almost impossible for any of us to avoid. It is why the methods of science that emphasize checking and rechecking, verification and replication, and especially attempts to falsify a claim, are so critical.
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6. Does the preponderance of evidence point to the claimant's conclusion or to a different one?
The theory of evolution, for example, is ``proved'' through a convergence of evidence from a number of independent lines of inquiry… Creationists conveniently ignore this confluence, focusing instead on trivial anomalies or currently unexplained phenomena in the history of life.
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7. Is the claimant employing the accepted rules of reason and tools of research, or have these been abandoned in favor of others that lead to the desired conclusion?
A clear distinction can be made between SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists and UFOlogists. SETI scientists begin with the null hypothesis that ETIs do not exist …
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8. Is the claimant providing an explanation for the observed phenomena or merely denying the existing explanation?
This is a classic debate strategy--criticize your opponent and never affirm what you believe to avoid criticism.
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9. If the claimant proffers a new explanation, does it account for as many phenomena as the old explanation did?
Many HIV/AIDS skeptics argue that lifestyle causes AIDS. Yet their alternative theory does not explain nearly as much of the data as the HIV theory does.
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10. Do the claimant's personal beliefs and biases drive the conclusions, or vice versa?
All scientists hold social, political and ideological beliefs that could potentially slant their interpretations of the data, but how do those
biases and beliefs affect their research in practice?
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Baloney
Bologna sausage… also known as boloney, baloney[1] or polony, is an American sausage derived from and somewhat similar to the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage containing cubes of lard that originated in the Italian city of Bologna, (Wikipedia)
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TIME Magazine Cover: Cyber Porn - July 3, 1995
Researcher Martin Rimm83.5% of images traded
on Usenet are pornographic
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Martin Rimm
"Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories.” Georgetown Law Review
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Martin Rimm
"Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories.” Georgetown Law Review
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Martin Rimm
"Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories.” Georgetown Law Review
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Martin Rimm
"Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories.” Georgetown Law Review
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THANKS!
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Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
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