“How can disaster be exploited by cynical social media companies?”I’m glad you asked, hypothetical person that I made up!Since the invasion of Ukraine last night, our site traffic has jumped up to 160% of average capacity and is still increasing [Thread]— Hexbear (@chapo_chat) February 24, 2022
I think I already wrote this paper in grad school. People who use more emotionally heightened language in their gofundme campaigns get more than those who don’t. Tragedy is commodified, or rather the eusocial experience of relieving another’s tragedy is commodified and sold to us
I love that phrasing. I’m unfortunately cobbling the ideas together from a bunch of places, mostly @KermitTheFraud’s effort posts
Edit: I guess point being I’m not nearly as familiar with the literature as I ought to be. I dropped out of school because I didn’t have the patience for that
The only difference between a smart man and an educated one is whether they know the citations, not whether they understand the concepts. Knowing the literature is overrated as long as you get the theory and commodification is something I feel like leftists are well versed on in general
I think I already wrote this paper in grad school. People who use more emotionally heightened language in their gofundme campaigns get more than those who don’t. Tragedy is commodified, or rather the eusocial experience of relieving another’s tragedy is commodified and sold to us
I love that phrasing. I’m unfortunately cobbling the ideas together from a bunch of places, mostly @KermitTheFraud’s effort posts
Edit: I guess point being I’m not nearly as familiar with the literature as I ought to be. I dropped out of school because I didn’t have the patience for that
The only difference between a smart man and an educated one is whether they know the citations, not whether they understand the concepts. Knowing the literature is overrated as long as you get the theory and commodification is something I feel like leftists are well versed on in general
Yeah I suppose it’s not like I’m doing research or anything where making sure the ground hasn’t already been trod is important
Neat thread. Thanks for the shoutout. I’m cobbling the ideas together myself. Hopefully we’re not doing some sort of game of theory telephone