notesAug 7, 2020
Factors
- Organised bad-faith actors
- State backed troll farms
- ideological group backed organised actors
- Increased diversity of internet users
- backgrounds
- social norms
- language
- knowledge
- Generational changes in social interaction norms
- technological mediation, and there7s an multi-national
corporated developed app for that, leaning
to less developed social skills, and alientation,
disconnection from own location, reigon. cant imagine actually
calling a local business on the phone, and talking to a
person..
- Network effects??
- like chain recations.. The bad faith actors creating
situations were other groups create anti-community action even
though the do not share the same goals a the bad-faith group.
- Infulence of hegemonic battles in wider society
- increased polerisation, antagonism, politicalisation of
everyday life
- identiry politics
- Unequal
- access to privacy and anonmyity
- knowledge and skills in the used of tech
- knowleged and skill in the use of new media
- levels of organisation and focus
- one side thinks this is a culture war
- the other side isnt aware there is a war going on
- levels of radicalized resoorting to violence