What we are dealing with is not primarily a moral or semantic crisis, even though it is experienced that way. Planetary-scale communication systems behave like physical systems with dense feedback and high throughput: they develop statistical biases toward states that reproduce the conditions of their own continuation. These systems have ontic reality—that is, they are […]
- Tags algorithmic amplification, attention economy, collective behavior, communication systems, complex systems, cybernetics, entropy, feedback loops, frequency domain, global communication, information theory, information warfare, media ecology, misinformation, network dynamics, nonlinear-dynamics, political disinformation, political polarization, populism, propaganda, statistical bias, structural causality, structural power, systems analysis, systems theory, technological mediation, throughput politics
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