1. "'Alt-Lite'
Bloggers and the Conservative Ecosystem," by Tyler Bridges,
Joan Shorenstein Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy
School, Harvard University, February 20, 2018 (same piece, pdf
link, to download right click and select "save link as": https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Alt-Lite-Bloggers-and-Conservative-Ecosystem.pdf
)
This is long, brilliant, and most interesting.
2. You may have noted the mention of filter bubbles above. This is most informative on that topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble For more see also filter bubble - Startpage Web Search
love to all,
Larry
This is long, brilliant, and most interesting.
"This research paper examines the important role that “alt-lite” bloggers play in promoting, amplifying, and fortifying Donald Trump’s anti-establishment message to his conservative supporters."But it is much more than that.
".....The bloggers have not received the credit they deserve in keeping Trump popular with his political base. Each tweet or YouTube video they post ricochets throughout the conservative ecosystem thanks to retweets, likes, and shares that provide a seal of approval for friends and acquaintances.There is detail on who these alt-right and alt-lite "news" generators are.
"And to Trump’s benefit, it is a closed ecosystem, thanks to a phenomenon given a name by Eli Pariser in a 2011 TED talk.[19] Pariser outlined how digital media allowed citizens to tailor the news they consumed to their political beliefs. Conservatives seek out conservative websites. Liberals seek out liberal ones. Pariser called it the 'filter bubble'......"
"......An April 2017 article by Jared Holt of People for the American Way, a left-leaning group, put it this way: 'This new-media ecosystem exists outside of traditional newspapers and cable news networks, instead taking to social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Periscope, Reddit, and YouTube to promote its far-right nationalist politics and conspiracy-laden worldviews to an audience it has isolated and now dominates as its preferred news source.[footnote omitted LAS]
"Those in the center-right, the center, the center-left and the left also exist in the filter bubble to an extent, but nowhere to the degree of the Trump supporters, the Berkman Klein researchers reported. To varying degrees, people other than Trump supporters still seek out mainstream media outlets for their news......."
2. You may have noted the mention of filter bubbles above. This is most informative on that topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble For more see also filter bubble - Startpage Web Search
love to all,
Larry
