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Everyday Stories, Lived

Media

  • Floating like a bubble, numbing down

    At one time or another, you’ve been fascinated by bubbles. Here now and poof! Gone. So you make them again and again and again. It’s as if your mind is numb from doing anything else but making bubbles until you are out of breath. Then you pause and do it one more time (again). The Read more

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  • Misleading stories

    You need to be careful what you listen to repeatedly because you might eventually mistake the lie for truth. Take this marketing ploy as an example. Branding often involves retelling the same fictional story again and again, until people become convinced it is the truth. What images come to mind when you think about Coca-Cola? Read more

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  • Are you ready for a world in which…?

    Facial recognition technology is a mainstream tool available to any individual or organization. Subscribers can tap into a database with hundreds of millions of faces indexed and clearly recognizable. Cameras are installed in most public and private spaces to take advantage of this technology, and a new ecosystem of apps emerges that integrates facial recognition Read more

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  • Are you ready for a world in which…?

    Video-faking algorithms are so advanced that faked videos are impossible to distinguish from real footage. These algorithms can completely replace people’s faces and speech to make it appear they’ve said or done anything the author intends. With this technology, anyone can manufacture video “proof” to back up any claim. These video fakes flood major video-sharing, Read more

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  • How to spot fake news

    Being on social media these days, you can’t help but notice unproductive ideas just floating around. Because they are up for grabs, people who never thought about thinking through whatever they consume from the media becomes vulnerable to come up with absurd and unproductive reasoning. The author of Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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  • Confessions of a media manipulator

    Most of the time, the truth never gets famous or applauded. And suppose whatever content is paid by viewership and clicks. In that case, it’s easy to manipulate them and make them into something that pays. So the question is, how exactly does the media work? In looking for answers, I stumbled upon this book. Read more

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  • The business model of the press

    The business model of the press guarantees you will see more negativity than the facts support. Things are often better than they seem, especially in the long run. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more

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