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You're wrong, all the digital age has done has amplify the speed. Outrage is a common theme of previous generations, you only have to take a casual glance at a
by mattmanser 3y ago
You're wrong, all the digital age has done has amplify the speed.
Outrage is a common theme of previous generations, you only have to take a casual glance at any decade to find a movement fuelled by outrage.
The temperance movement that lead to prohibition. McCarthyism. Even the rise of Nazism.
- ekianjo 3y ago> You're wrong, all the digital age has done has amplify the speed. Of course not. Digital age has made measuring what works better to get clicks possible, and this has completely changed the incentives of the news industry.
- tchaffee 3y agoWhat were the incentives in the past and what are they now?
- sangnoir 3y agoAre you completely ignoring cable news networks and their decades-old rating mechanisms. Mass-media polarization started decades ago, what the internet made possible was to target the long tail of niches. 40 years ago, a conspiracy theory targeting Jordanian bakers[1] would have fizzled out after the first print-run of flyers in a small town, but today, it can be a self-sustaining forum with members all around the world egging each other on in their echo chamber. 1. As a random example
- mattmanser 3y agoEven mass media wasn't the beginning of it. There's lots of examples to look at in history of "outrage" that spread through a huge part of the world, for example inquisitions or witch trials. Slower, but I'm sure if you thought harder or had better knowledge of history than me you could come up with examples of things that happened before even the printing press was invented. There's probably plenty of examples in Roman history that spread out from Rome to its conquests.