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This drives me nuts. The irony here is that one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse to the point of infantilization. Subtly do
by timoth3y 5y ago
This drives me nuts. The irony here is that one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse to the point of infantilization. Subtly does not get traction.
We need binary truths! Myths and myth-busters.
None of the author's "myths" are myths. They are all true in a general sense. What the author is correctly pointing out is that there is more subtly. That to understand the real situation requires a deeper look.
Of course, that would never get traction on social media, so it must be framed as "No! They are wrong!"
- disambiguation 5y ago> one of the things social media does is force us to simplify our discourse In this case it's not because of social media, since the author cites a 10 min constraint to present to the Danish parliament.
- awb 5y agoIf I only get 10min, I’m still including citations in my 10min presentation (which they claim to have done on the last Tweet in the thread linking to a Dropbox with slides and citations). Last thing I want is to come across as someone who didn’t do their research.
- megapolitics 5y agoWhat do you mean by "they claim to have done"? They have done, and that is easily verifiable.
- wobblybubble 5y agoThe irony is that this comment is less informative than the thing that it is criticizing. Basic summary: the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Which is as informative as claiming that the truth is on some kind of binary extreme. A further irony is the meta-complaining about simplification while being as bare-bones simplistic as it gets. “No! They are wrong!” Really? That’s not what the Twitter thread says at all. For example, it claims that misinformation is not a problem but that the real problem is biased sharing. The Twitter thread makes a series of concrete claims about social media which can be fact checked. The comment above, however, does not. 4/10.