# life: how social media could act to dehumanize the 'dehumanizable' ...

<< Fundamentally, we wanted to examine how online platforms can normalize hatred and contribute to dehumanization, (..) We found that the language used in these Facebook interactions hewed very closely to three stages we see in Terrell Northrup's theory of intractable conflict (..) One stage is the threat (..) A second stage is distortion (..) A third stage is rigidification >> Jessica Jameson.

Matt Shipman. How social media platforms can contribute to dehumanizing people. North Carolina State University. May 20, 2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-social-media-platforms-contribute-dehumanizing.html     

Tal Orian Harel, Jessica Katz Jameson, Ifat Maoz. The Normalization of Hatred: Identity, Affective Polarization, and Dehumanization on Facebook in the Context of Intractable Political Conflict. Social Media + Society. doi: 10.1177/ 2056305120913983. May 12, 2020

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120913983   

Also

keyword 'facebook' in FonT:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

# behav: a great white shark at rest

<< Great white sharks are known for racing past the Mid-Atlantic states to get someplace else, so experts pay attention in rare cases when one not only stops, but stays put.

That's happening now along the Virginia-North Carolina border with a 10-foot, 3-inch male tracked by OCEARCH.

"It's interesting watching white shark Shaw since unlike other sharks on the Tracker, he has been hanging out off the Virginia coast for over a month," OCEARCH posted Tuesday on Facebook. >>

Mark Price. Experts puzzled as 10-foot great white shark stays a month in one spot off East Coast.  Dec 10, 2019.

https://m.phys.org/news/2019-12-experts-puzzled-foot-great-white.html

Ocearch. Dec 4, 2019

https://m.facebook.com/OCEARCH/posts/10162443074005167

Also

The long (and slow) life of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Aug 16, 2016. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2016/08/s-ageing-long-and-slow-life-of.html

# trade: cryptocoin dances: Bitcoin vs. Zuk.CaLibra, the beginning

<< Bitcoin is up an eye-popping 245% in 2019 so far.

And based on many business news headlines of the past week, you’d think bitcoin’s surge is all thanks to Facebook.

But bitcoin was already up nearly 200% before June 18, when Facebook announced its plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra next year and a digital wallet called Calibra. And the Facebook news initially sent bitcoin lower for the first few days, before it recovered. >>

Daniel Roberts. Bitcoin price surge is not just about Facebook's crypto push. Yahoo Finance. Jun 26, 2019, 9:28 PM GMT+2

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-surge-is-not-just-about-facebooks-crypto-push-192843056.html

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"Facebook"  in:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

# life: the ultimate explanation

<< Is the ultimate explanation for what’s happened to us is that everyone is a moron?  >> 06:01 Aug 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1030847282269306881

Masha Gessen. How QAnon and Sacha Baron Cohen Speak to the Same Desperate Need. Aug 8, 2018.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-qanon-and-sacha-baron-cohen-speak-to-the-same-desperate-need

FonT

qualcosa di simile a "moron"  pare fosse l'opinione del giovane Mr. Mark  Zuckerberg sui suoi giovani colleghi studenti all'inizio del suo incredibile successo; chissa' se nel frattempo MZ ha cambiato opinione ...

facebook: a synthetic perspective from the deep brain, by Mark. Apr 14, 2018.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2018/04/web-facebook-synthetic-perspective-from.html

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"facebook" in:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

# life: smart cities

<< Even something as simple as a garbage bin can now be connected to the internet, meaning that it forms part of what is called the internet of things (IoT) >>

<< Through sensors embedded into our cities, and the smartphones in our pockets, smart cities will have the power to constantly identify where people are, who they are meeting and even perhaps what they are doing >>

Sara Degli-Esposti, Siraj Ahmed Shaikh. With smart cities, your every step will be recorded. Apr 17, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/with-smart-cities-your-every-step-will-be-recorded-94527  

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-04-smart-cities.html   

FonT

"and even perhaps what they are doing" . Non solo. Una ipotetica AI, oltre a collezionare dati, potrebbe verosimilmente generare (su media digitali audio- video ad es.) situazioni assolutamente inventate, di fantasia, percio' mai avvenute nel reale tuttavia difficili se non impossibili da discriminare/ confutare anche in sedi tecniche/  legali/ penali (l'ipotetico Mr. John dormiva inconsapevole nel suo letto e contemporaneamente 500 cam della sua citta' lo riprendevano in strada a passeggio ...). In tali scenari, le attuali violazioni della privacy e i supposti condizionamenti di Facebook etc sull'individuo si  potrebbero riconsiderare attivita' da  fantolini ...

# web: facebook (etc) data, a big correlated lump, harder to delete (then disappear)

<< Information on users' personalities or 'psychographics' was just a modest part of how the model targeted citizens. It was not a personality model strictly speaking, but rather one that boiled down demographics, social influences, personality and everything else into a big correlated lump >>. Matthew Hindman.

<< If Facebook is that hard to leave, just think about what will happen as virtual reality becomes more popular. The powerful algorithms that manipulate Facebook users are not nearly as effective as VR will be, with its full immersion >>

Jeff Inglis. Understanding Facebook's data crisis - 5 essential reads. The Conversation. Apr 5, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/understanding-facebooks-data-crisis-5-essential-reads-94066

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-04-facebook-crisis5-essential.html

also:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.it/search?q=facebook

# web: facebook: a synthetic perspective from the deep brain, by Mark

<< We've learned that Zuckerberg (Mark  Zuckerberg) once called the first Facebook users "dumb fucks" for handing over their private data >>

Jose Antonio Vargas. The Face of Facebook. Mark  Zuckerberg opens up. Sep 20, 2010.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook

<< Part of the problem is that we are simply addicted to Facebook. Like cocaine addicts, alcoholics or smokers, we have a hard time giving it up >>

<< As Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook, admits, the narcotic-like, slot-machine effects were consciously designed into the platform right from the start. As Parker bravely confesses, they "understood this consciously," but they “did it anyway.” >>

Mike Sosteric. Why we should all cut the Facebook cord. Or should we?
Apr 3, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/why-we-should-all-cut-the-facebook-cord-or-should-we-93929

more:

Grainne Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn.  Facebook data harvesting: what you need to know. Apr 3, 2018.

https://theconversation.com/facebook-data-harvesting-what-you-need-to-know-93959

more:

Richard Stallman. Reasons not to use Facebook. Why you should not 'use' (i.e., be used by) Facebook.

https://www.stallman.org/facebook.html

also:

# web: Facebook, every mistake you can imagine, by Mark. Feb 8, 2018

https://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2018/02/web-facebook-every-mistake-you-can.html

# web: Facebook, every mistake you can imagine, by Mark

<<  "Over the years, I've made almost every mistake you can imagine," the Facebook co-founder said on his personal page >>

Zuckerberg acknowledges 'mistakes' as Facebook turns 14. Feb 5, 2018.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-zuckerberg-acknowledges-facebook.html

FonT
non ho letto il post di Mark Zuckerberg perche' non sono mai (qui si sottolinea "mai") stato iscritto a Facebook;  certo e' che dopo questo post il sospetto declina in certezza:  la moltitudine dei suoi utenti giovandosi di tali servizi non sembra messa molto bene  ... mah

# p-usa: #POTUS race: Donald presidency scares him to death, by Stephen

<< Author Stephen King spoke to Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post's Book World, during a Facebook Live interview Saturday >>

<< If there's one man who would seem immune to fear, it's Stephen King, the best-selling author and master of horror fiction. But after more than 50 novels, hundreds of short stories and numerous film adaptations of his voluminous work, the 69-year-old still gets spooked >>

<< "A Tump presidency scares me more than anything else," King told Ron Charles [..] "I'm terrified that he'll become president" >>

<<  "I would have laughed three or four months ago, but I think that Trump has a real shot" >>

Peter Holley. Stephen King: ‘A Trump presidency scares me to death’. POST, The Fix. Sept. 24, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/24/master-of-horror-fiction-stephen-king-says-trump-presidency-scares-me-to-death/

# e-web-trade: in-consapevoli riserve

<< 400 milioni di spettri si aggirano per l'Europa: sono gli utenti del web e dei social network, invisibili fantasmi, nella loro incorporea presenza online, che formano oggi l'esercito di riserva del capitalismo digitale >>

<<  I selfie delle vacanze su Facebook e le battute che twittiamo civettuoli sono sì attività piacevoli ma niente affatto improduttive. Perlomeno per noi. Valgono infatti, nel loro insieme, miliardi di dollari >>

Giuliano Aluffi, laRepubblica

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2015/09/28/e-ora-pagateci-per-i-nostri-post-lultima-crociata-contro-i-social35.html

# s-behav-web: Facebook dependency

<< What drives you to Facebook? News? Games? Feedback on your posts? The chance to meet new friends?
If any of these hit home, you might have a Facebook dependency >>

http://www.uakron.edu/im/online-newsroom/news_details.dot?newsId=951e808b-b3a6-4be4-b1f3-725b5cf734be&pageTitle=Research%20News&crumbTitle=Are%20you%20Facebook-dependent?

also:

<< personality traits common among specific types of Facebook users >>

Erin E. Hollenbaugh, Amber L. Ferris
Predictors of honesty, intent, and valence of Facebook self-disclosure. Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 50, September 2015, Pages 456-464

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215003179

Erin E. Hollenbaugh, Amber L. Ferris
Facebook self-disclosure: Examining the role of traits, social cohesion, and motives. Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 30, January 2014, Pages 50-58

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321300294X

# e-web-social-polls-s-behav: no one had done this kind of study before ...

<< I was surprised that no one had done this kind of study before, at least not in published research. Campaigns invest heavily in social media, and this is something that will play out in 2016 >> Paul Brewer.

The Facebook effect. Positive comments on social media found to influence potential voters - 9:19 a.m., Sept. 23, 2015

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2016/sep/politics-social-media-092315.html

Paul R. Brewer, Michael Habegger, et al. Interactivity between Candidates and Citizens on a Social Networking Site: Effects on Perceptions and Vote Intentions. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2015; 1 DOI: 10.1017/XPS.2014.29

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9817041&fileId=S2052263014000293