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to sri lanka
the curious
case of social
media
sanjana hattotuwa
ict4peace foundation
facebook
1,117
accounts
across 25
clusters
twitter
962 accounts
across 25
clusters
FacebookTwitterShort-termLong-term
Entrenchment /
Normalisation
Justification /
Dominance /
Contestation
Harbinger /
Feeder /
Outward
looking
Intention /
Substantive
debate /
Manipulation /
Engagement
SeaSandSoil Shore
christchurch
march 2019
• 51 dead, including children
• 50 injured
easter sunday
april 2019
• around 260 dead including
• 45 children
• around 500 injured, some for life
public pulse over social
media
signatures, signals and
signs
a divided country
a decade after end of
war
#victorydaysl
13-18 may
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#mullivaikkal
13-18 may
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weaponising
affordances
democratic or
damoclean
volume, vector, velocity
scale, scope and speed
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one video every second
uploaded to youtube
unprecedented
measures
• stopped search for recent uploads
• stopped human reviews (allowing false positives
through)
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interplay with
communal violence
accelerants for infamy
swarms (or mobs)
fluid dynamics
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collective intelligence
natural & neural to
social & political
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adhesion
cohesion
repulsion
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context
country
community
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mob mentality &
violence
irreducible to single or
simple drivers
ai as accelerant
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ai limitations
interpretation, context,
hashing
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ml and nlp limitations
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context conflation
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the flip side
unseen & under-
appreciated by West
christchurch attack
hashtag co-occurrence
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christchurch attack
wordclouds
#49lives #theyareus
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social media during
constitutional chaos
democratic pushback
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twitter in 2018
#lka & #srilanka, 470k
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interactions
on facebook
twitter, photos &
collages
activism & art
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memes & cartoons
pushback &
normalisation
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easter sunday
immediate responses
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memes
against violence
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inflection points
course correction or
cementing chaos
#deletefacebook
why it will never
take root outside
the west
regulation from westis not always for
the best
a business model gone
awry
from quantity to
quality, profits
anchored to
timbre & tenor
pivot to privacy
counter-
intuitively may
help drivers of
violence, thwart
academic study
dna of politics
reflects and
refracts
dynamics, from
democracy to
populism
algorithmic oversightbeyond human
scale
complex media
ecologies
divisions between
mainstream,
traditional and social
media lost
networked gatekeeping
social media
companies as gate-
keepers as well as
democratisation of
gate-keeping
what’s past is prologue
shakespeare
thank you
ict4peace.org

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