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2020-08-23

The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses When I showed some of these Instagram accounts to Sophie Bishop, a lecturer in digital humanities at King’s College London, she identified in all of them a “very recognizable,” feminine-coded aesthetic. “It’s aspirational, and then it’s also authentic enough to allow for relatability,” she […]

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2020-08-10

Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind

The behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason. The term “propaganda” has been replaced by “a behavioral approach to persuasive communication with quantifiable results.” One We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of social psychology and behavioral […]

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2020-07-27

Nostalgia reimagined

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Anticipatory Nostalgia, fake news, Future of community, Future of Democracy, Future of Governance, Future of Identity, Honest Accounts, honest evidence, Marketing, Nostalgia, propaganda, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2020-06-19

Conspiracy theory smell test

Dr. Art Hunter, Canadian Club of Rome Board of Directors, explains his smell test for authenticity of an article. “Is this link a conspiracy theory, fake news, propaganda or a clear statement of dire concern?” https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-collapse/ It passed my smell test. One of the main reasons I shared this link that is highly critical of […]

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2020-04-24

How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news

The world has known about the dangers of climate change for decades — so why are oil and gas companies still drilling for crude as if there’s no tomorrow? There’s no simple answer. But any explanation would have to give some credit to the wizards of public relations. For more than a century, these spinmasters […]

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