Podcasts · Really? no, Really? with Jason Alexander & Peter Tilden
Why Social Media Is Making Us More Divided Than Ever | Really? no Really?
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Episode Why Social Media Is Making Us More Divided Than Ever | Really? no Really?
Just because something is going viral doesn't mean it's important but it can be divisive because not everyone is sharing and receiving the same information. But this is how social media platforms can cause us to get in our own bubbles causing serious dangerous divisiveness. Luckily, our guest on this episode of the Really? no Really? Podcast, Ruby Thelon, has been studying digital trends and has some thoughts on how to battle this enterprise of bots pushing the political propaganda and cultural maneuvers. Little background on Ruby: He is a designer, cyber ethnographer and teacher who's been studying the phenomena of of online trending for a while now. He'll explain to Jason and Peter how social media and isolation have to lead to a form of digital speciation creating it's own digital language. So how do we pop these algorithmic bubbles? Rudy will explain how his Tim To Touch solution works. Follow Ruby: https://www.instagram.com/being_on_line Pre-order his new book: In Defense of Being Online https://draw-down.com/collections/new/products/rubythelot
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