https://civicmediaclass.mit.edu/2015/03/17/the-private-nudge-unit-using-psychology-to-combat-denialism-in-the-networked-public-sphere/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civicmediaclass.mit.edu/2015/03/17/the-private-nudge-unit-using-psychology-to-combat-denialism-in-the-networked-public-sphere/#comment-68 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:20:01 +0000 http://civic-media-class.wordpress.brownbag.me/?p=371#comment-68 First off, you should definitely get ahold of Ethan’s book Rewired as it deals directly with these questions of combating echo chambers in favor of a cosmopolitan networked public sphere. Additionally, you should look at the “social wargaming” experiments using bots on Twitter carried about by my friends involved with Pacific Social Architecting Corporation; they tried to automatic this very process of connecting people from disparate subnetworks of Twitter:
– http://www.webecologyproject.org/category/competition/
– http://timhwang.org/2013/05/17/pacific-social-architecting-corporation/
– http://www.academia.edu/2169112/Pacific_social_architecting_corporation_Field_test_report
– https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2090161
On the topic of Denialism, I would love you to explain how this is related to the crises in civics we discussed at the beginning, and see how we might prompt civic renewal despite Ivan Kristen’s cynicism.

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