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• 1 2019-07-24T22:11:06-07:00 I'm unaware 9 NYU plain 2020-03-03T16:14:00-08:00

  
  "I'm unaware" by Archita Arun
  
  

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #46:

  #46, stay aware, not afraid
• 1 2019-07-23T20:48:13-07:00 Essay 6 Sussex plain 2020-02-17T01:01:15-08:00 ‘Essay’
  : that which is in medias res
  is always already all-known –
  a narrator gives it to you now, i.e.:
  “Concept” .
  ‘Blimey! That was brilliant!’ you say,
  ‘As palatable as an apple 
  on a summer’s day!’ 
  
  By Grace Manson
  
  

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #5:

  #5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web’s infrastructure
• 1 2017-11-06T18:46:03-08:00 #5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web’s infrastructure 4 February 19, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T21:03:51-07:00 One post-election 2016 viral-wonder—the crisis of “fake news” in the wake of the 2016 presidential election—was a logical and necessary outgrowth of the web’s sordid infrastructure, prurient daily pleasures, and neoliberal political economy.
  
  Fake things abound on the internet—as do true ones, to be sure—because its current infrastructure is based upon amoral principles that do not measure, value, or correct for  candor or integrity. Rather, popularity, volume, consumption, sales, and entertainment rule the day and the form. As I argued in my 2011 on-line video-book Learning from YouTube, while there’s nothing wrong with any of these qualities per se, they are not the best forums to sustain and promote education, and they may be even less well equipped to support news, elections, democracies, or civil societies.
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  • After Politics/After Television: Veep, Digimodernism, and the Running Gag of Government, by Joe Conway.
    “Joe Conway makes reference to Alan Kirby and his dystopian concept of “digimodernism”, where the “apparently real” is the dominant aesthetic, “one where the knowing pastiches and parodies of postmodernism cease to register because they require a broad foundation of past cultural knowledge that has been leveled into non-meaning.” Some of his descriptions of digimodernism are helpful to think about fake news and how fake have lost its subversive potential.” Recommended by Emilia Yang, Ph.D. Student in Media Arts and Practice.
  • Learning from YouTube, Alexandra Juhasz, MIT Press, 2011.
  • Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This is All About Income,” By Andrew Higgins, Mike McIntire and Gabriel JX Dancenov, Nov. 25, 2016.

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