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April 25, 2012 01:00 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nLg2ZOEBlNY/how-a-culture-of-fear-thrives.html
How a culture of fear thrives in attention economies, and what that means for "radical transparency" and the Zuckerberg doctrine
Danah boyd's "The Power of Fear in Networked Publics" is a speech delivered at SXSW and Webstock New Zealand (that's where this video comes from). Danah first defines a culture of fear ("the ways in which fear is employed by marketers, politicians, technology designers [e.g., consider security narratives] and the media to regulate the public"), [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nLg2ZOEBlNY/how-a-culture-of-fear-thrives.html
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