Hi everyone,
My area of research is the effects of a range of threats (mostly grey zone, informational, and environmental) to social cohesion and societal resilience.
In relation to my work on informational threats (disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy thinking), I have just finished reading a book by Ed Coper entitled "Facts and other lies: Welcome to the disinformation age". What I found particularly interesting here is that the author argues that there has been a major paradigm shift that we are still going through away from the Age of Enlightenment to now the Age of Disinformation. The argument is that we cannot fix the informational problem through the old paradigm and that we need to start understanding the new paradigm in order to come up with solutions.
My PhD thesis (many years ago now) tracked the sociological history of consumerism from the Age of Enlightenment through to the present. As part of this, in the best sociological tradition, I was able to pick up and provide an outline of the paradigm change towards neoliberalism in the 1970s. However, I have been finding that framing today's world in terms of neoliberalism is no longer realistic and that doing so means attempting to analyse today's social trends through an old paradigm. Of course, for analysing information disorder (as we call it), this is not appropriate at all as it doesn't help us to explain the influence of social media, political changes towards populism, and many other trends. The other point is that it appears that the overwhelming majority of academics (including most sociologists) and thinkers outside of academia are still analysing today's world through the old paradigm because they haven't noticed the paradigmatic evolution of recent years.
My question is: have any of you noticed the paradigm shift (which may very well be showing up in the younger generation in terms of identity politics, in particular), and if so, do you have any papers I can read in order to more deeply understand these changes? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
This is a very powerful question and background. Actually, I have encountered many research papers on the issue of misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and political impact from the point of view of the role of Artificial Intelligence in both, the making and the combatting dimensions of the above. Papers mostly are found in the New Media field.
Dr Robert Muller and Hussin Jose Hejase. Excellent, yet, sadly disenchanting, conversation on the truth of this planet's continuing emergence into an age of despair.
As I state across media interviews for years, this topic is deeply entangled; it is diabolically beautiful in its massive interconnectedness.
Feel free to contact and discuss via a call, as via messages would take hours.
Dear Robert,
I think, that "old" does not function already, but "new" is not created yet.
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