{"id":15793,"date":"2021-12-20T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=15793"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:46:06","slug":"going-to-listen-social-warming-the-dangerous-and-polarising-effects-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/going-to-listen-social-warming-the-dangerous-and-polarising-effects-of-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to listen &#8211; Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about Charles Arthur\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Social-Warming-Dangerous-Polarising-Effects\/dp\/1786079976\/\"> Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media<\/a> John Naughton says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I run into non-tech-savvy people and realise they have no idea about how social-media feeds are algorithmically curated, say, or why many people in the global South are unaware that Facebook is not the Internet. But then I think: how could they have known? After all, mainstream media doesn\u2019t do a good job of explaining it. And social-media definitely have no incentive to do it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnaughton.substack.com\/p\/monday-20-december-2021\">Memex 1.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which made it sound like an interesting book. I&#8217;ve grabbed the audio version for January&#8217;s commute. I tend to prefer shorter podcasts, and have not listened to many audio books so am wondering if I&#8217;ll manage to keep on to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about Charles Arthur\u2019s Social Warming: The dangerous and polarising effects of social media John Naughton says: I run into non-tech-savvy people and realise they have no idea about how social-media feeds are algorithmically curated, say, or why many people in the global South are unaware that Facebook is not the Internet. But then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1473015705746423812"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[1428,482,582],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-micro","7":"tag-audio-book","8":"tag-reading","9":"tag-social-media","10":"kind-note","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-46J","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15795,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15793"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=15793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}