Speaking truth in a post-truth world
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This document discusses some of the challenges of truth and transparency in today's digital world. It touches on topics like deepfakes, anonymity online, manipulation of users through algorithms and privacy, radicalization, and the illusion of choice and engagement provided by social media. It argues for more grounded research on how social platforms actually function and could be regulated to focus on duties of care, privacy and health rather than just growth and profits. Overall it examines issues around verifying truth online and finding common ground amid increasing political and social polarization.
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Speaking truth in a post-truth world
- 1. Speaking truth in a post-truth world Sanjana Hattotuwa ICT4Peace Foundation
- 4. State of playWhat are the markers of power
- 5. Blurring real & unreal Whispers of immortality or barbarians at the gate?
- 7. Gemini Man
- 8. “Junior in the movie is twice as expensive as Will Smith,” said Lee. “I dare anybody to try. It’s so hard. It’s like impossible. Will Smith is easy. Tell him this and that and he’ll act. And then, when we do Junior, it’s a poor imitation of God’s work. That’s how hard it is. It’s pretty impossible.”
- 9. Identity markets/markersWho is real?
- 12. Mat Brinkman, New York Times
- 13. Beyond comprehensionThe illusion of informed consent
- 15. Invisibility of manipulation indivisible from media Weaponisation of algorithms
- 16. Pitfalls of privacy pivotRadicalisation under the radar
- 18. Premade choicesThe illusion of agency
- 20. Constricted worldviewThe illusion of engagement
- 22. Obscenity of othersNo common ground & increasing fracture
- 24. Deception disguisedCapture & retention of attention
- 25. Vase in the Form of a Siren Terracotta, mold made ca. 540 BCE Walters Art Museum
- 27. Protesting power from Latin protestari, from pro- ‘forth, publicly’ + testari ‘assert’
- 28. Mapping wicked problems No (easy) solutions to VUCA, power of description
- 30. Grounded research on construction of social media A gaze from within instead of outsider frames
- 32. Reconfiguring/regulating the Valley From profit, growth & toxicity to duty of care, privacy & health
- 34. Agility, adoption & adaptation Critically embrace potential to drive change
- 36. Danger of the single story Chimamanda Ngozi’s prescient warning, now amplified & via diverse vectors
- 38. Our stories. Our way.Publishing for posterity
- 39. The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Allen Ginsberg, Song