The discomfort caused by the dissonance between what (we think) we need to be and what we actually are…
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Letting Go
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Reflections: Don’t Feed The Troll
There is no sense in which the normative value of a consensus morality is the central concern for a bully or online troll. Piranha feeding at a corpse do not much care for the reason the corpse lies before them in the water…
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Social Media: The Shame Game ?
The hyper-sensitivities of online social spaces have created a new moral matrix…
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Facebook’s “Safety Check”
Social realities have always been culturally-mediated spaces but when these spaces are themselves aligned to corporate financial gain, even genuinely or potentially useful post-disaster communications and humanitarian tools seem hollow and superficial…
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The “Mediation” in Social Media
Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…
…attempts to lock systems down inadvertently create the loopholes and logics of their own failure…
A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…
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Words: Mistaken Identities
In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…
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Cult of Personality
The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…
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Facebook Tackles Fake News
Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…
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Voting Against Your Own Best Interests
A wily political tactician may influence or deceive through emotional hypnotic suggestion to an unwitting neuropsychological susceptibility…
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Online: Political Polarisation ?
The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…
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