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I am skeptical of calls for more "media literacy" and narratives that describe the majority of these people as being tricked or otherwise coerced into alt-right/seditious/otherwise violent extremist behavior.
and people who have been doing this longer than I have been alive feel similarly https://twitter.com/sivavaid/status/1347224493912109058?s=20
White supremacist groups have long been very adept users of technology and media to attract people to their belief systems and reactionary relationship to "the mainstream media". See Donovan, J., Lewis, B., and Friedberg, B. (2019), Daniels, J (2009), etc
I really like this paper by @alicetiara https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/why-do-people-share-fake-news-a-sociotechnical-model-of-media-effects/GLTR-07-2018/
It's a really powerful idea, if we can just get people the "right" information or teach them how to "properly" interpret the media they encounter, they would make better choices. But...really?
Which isn't to say that media literacy doesn't matter, but it's one piece of a much more complicated problem about how people come to know about the world around them and the *choices* they make about what to engage or not.
also yeah this too https://twitter.com/meredithdclark/status/1347289047425806336?s=20
---> yay internet studies https://twitter.com/hollykruse/status/1347289979769257985?s=20
Another good perspective, I read this last summer and it was helpful for my thinking about debates about "post-truth" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1492881
idk I'm just a bitch with Google Scholar and half a PhD in this! time to go back to reading the things I have been distracted from reading by the coup oops
great thoughts here too https://twitter.com/crystaljjlee/status/1347257503659118594?s=20
more on this "how to reckon with the person who, when you demonstrate that X meme is entirely fake, shrugs & says "so what? I prefer the lie." https://twitter.com/ryancordell/status/1347272718778068996?s=20
this is exactly what I'm talking about https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1347035759824564224?s=20
really useful perspective here too https://twitter.com/ximenachristine/status/1347331913724280833?s=20
another helpful perspective https://twitter.com/De_Kosnik/status/1347324960134504448?s=20
a cool roundup of researchers thinking out loud about fake news + info problems more generally https://twitter.com/cphoffmann/status/1347524510191218690
