Re: Anatomy of information warfare in the social media age

2022-03-03 Thread openflows
Thank you b and B! I appreciated your reflections. A couple of brief responses / reactions: What if reason and emotion are inseparable? What if our attempts to separate them were not only misguided but damaging to our social comprehension? Gerd Gigerenzer has some interesting thoughts on this, in

Re: Anatomy of information warfare in the social media age

2022-03-02 Thread Brian Holmes
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022, Balazs Bodo wrote: "I believe that western audiences are increasingly locked into a media environment that is rapidly re-structured under the conditions of a total information warfare. Information that circulates in this environment is at best incomplete, at worst is the resul

Anatomy of information warfare in the social media age

2022-03-02 Thread Balazs Bodo
dear nettime, I've been struggling with my general distrust in what is happening, your reasonable voices may ease my feeling of doom. cheers, b. The Ukraine conflict has many theaters of war, of which – at least for us in countries seemingly at peace – Ukraine is maybe the least important. Whil