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Click-hate: How the online rage machine took over society
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Social media fuels many emotions, especially anger. And if you’ve followed UK politics for any length of time, you’ll be used to that feeling. Author of Outrage Machine, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, says tech companies know this and have tailored their algorithms to maximise the amount we consume. But how does this translate to real life? Does it alter the way we vote? And does it damage democracy? He joins Hannah Fearn in The Bunker.
Book:
https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/tobias-rose-stockwell/outrage-machine/9780349427386/
- “We have a tremendous propensity to look to others when we’re trying to figure out what to feel.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell.
- “Social media does a really good job of serving us things that make us angry.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell.
- “Social media is not working with different materials… it’s just gotten better at extracting our attention.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell.
Written and presented by Hannah Fearn Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production
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