Populist tribalism is not merely a political mood. It is a communication environment unusually rich in signal, repetition, affect, antagonism, identity, fear, loyalty, humiliation, accusation, and recurrence. This matters because large digital platforms are not neutral carriers of public feeling. Their commercial systems depend on sustained engagement, behavioural prediction, data extraction, and increasingly fine-grained user […]
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Populism as Data Infrastructure
- Post author By G
- Post date Apr 25, 2026
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- Tags adversarial politics, affective politics, algorithmic amplification, attention economy, behavioural data, big tech, civic fragmentation, communication systems, computational culture, cultural entropy, data extraction, digital culture, digital platforms, engagement metrics, engagement-based ranking, epistemic crisis, information systems, partisan identity, platform capitalism, platform-mediated subjectivity, political communication, political-polarisation, populism, social media, social media algorithms, surveillance capitalism, symbolic order, systems theory, technological mediation, tribalism
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