Meme Wars
by Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, Brian Friedberg · first published 2023
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From the author of the extremely well received Meme Wars, Joan Donovan. Very nice contrast versus Facebook Files. Much appreciate this, as a good tocuhstone article for the times & happenings.
on “Why the ‘Twitter Files’ Are Falling Flat” ↗…discovered that a significant number of participants in the January 6 attack on the Capitol were driven by their support for President Trump. In September of the same year, Donovan released a book titled "Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America," which explores the spread of right-wing political conspiracy theories through online media. Donovan earned her PhD in Sociology…
on “Ousted propaganda scholar Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta” ↗…(though I have not). The ones I have read are: Smith's "Traffic", which isn't so much about addiction per se, but about how the game for traffic is played, by people who played it, the incentives for it; "Meme Wars" by Donovan, about memes and their effects on culture & politics (kind of adjacent to Reeve's "Black Pill", which I also read); and then multiple others which I won't cite here, which just made me think…
on “Laziness Death Spirals” ↗