Canada slips out of Top 20 in press freedom index
http://buff.ly/2qnZEoi
تمت إضافة 2 صورتين جديدتين من قبل Kathy E. Gill.
The science of the individual versus the group.
I did not know these animals made tools.
http://buff.ly/2oKbvgU
تمت مشاركة منشور Kathy Gill من قبل Kathy E. Gill.
"Somebody's going to get something out of it. And it isn't going to be you."


The rhetoric of 2016 and 2017 isn't new. This 1943 film (short excerpt here) warns what can happen if we let ourselves be turned into "suckers" by the forces of... fanaticism and hatred. Illustrates how how political propaganda was used here to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.
Don't Be A Sucker
Financed and produced by the United States War Department and distributed free to movie theaters. Reissued in 1946 after the end of World War II.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275310/
Full video at Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
Edit: shorter version on Twitter
https://twitter.com/kegill/status/854409025261191168
Autonomous shuttles at Ft Bragg foreshadow "autonomous convoys to help resupply forces in war zones"
"The only thing the shuttle can’t do, officials joked, is tell when another driver is waving it through an intersection."
http://buff.ly/2pjxQSC
تمت مشاركة منشور Kathy Gill من قبل Kathy E. Gill.
If you had any doubt about the importance of the Facebook platform, look at this: more than order of magnitude difference in views. (That's a factor of 10 for people who hate math!)
Watch:
FB: http://bit.ly/2oVfc6p
YT: https://youtu.be/p5vvRRJRrpo
Banned: "How much did you make in your last job?"
“Being underpaid once should not condemn one to a lifetime of inequity," Letitia James, NYC Public Advocate.
NYC joins Philly, MA, PR. Measure being considered in host of other jurisdictions.
Many businesses oppose, naturally.
and http://buff.ly/2pijwZQ
I did not know about this museum in Louisiana, which opened in 2014
It is 35 miles west of New Orleans.
http://buff.ly/2o8n7u5
Deep dive at the NYT...
http://buff.ly/2o8ieB5
تمت مشاركة منشور Kate Starbird من قبل Kathy E. Gill.
Important network analysis, odd connections
Finally finished my over-long but hopefully more readable blog to go along with my recent ICWSM Paper on Alternative Media and Disinformation.
The blog is here...: https://medium.com/…/information-wars-a-window-into-the-alt…
A truncated version: We take a systematic look at the alternative media ecosystem. Focusing on “alternative narratives” of crisis events, we use Twitter data to map the structure of the alternative media ecosystem. We find these domains host many different types of conspiracy theories — from political to pseudo-scientific. In this “virtual” world, the Sandy Hook School shootings were staged by crisis actors and the earth is actually flat after all.
Much of the content here is political propaganda—focused on “anti-globalism”, a term used to designate many different things— e.g. anti-immigration, anti-Western imperialism, anti-corporation, anti-media. Disturbingly, there were also strong currents of antisemitism (sometimes explicit, sometimes less so). Taken together, these positions align with and support the rise of nationalist ideologies in the U.S. and elsewhere.
We also note how the structure and content of the alternative media ecosystem suggest the use of intentional disinformation tactics — meant to create “muddled thinking” and a general mistrust in information.































