#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings Alexandra Juhasz f60e7beb550e75bc077d6722b27684bbbb62d0de Xiomara Liana Rodriguez e692622823dfcb5652df57e66962e293d1913569 Craig Dietrich 2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490
#5: #fakenews is logical outgrowth of web's infrastructure
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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.
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.
To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:
1 2018-01-09T10:55:55-08:00 Alexandra Juhasz f60e7beb550e75bc077d6722b27684bbbb62d0de Some #100hardtruths on Advertising Alexandra Juhasz 4 A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads plain 2018-01-11T05:51:07-08:00 Alexandra Juhasz f60e7beb550e75bc077d6722b27684bbbb62d0de
1 2017-11-06T18:38:48-08:00 #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptoms 4 February 21, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T21:42:06-07:00
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
1 2017-11-06T18:14:55-08:00 #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight needed 5 March 1, 2017 plain 2019-06-27T03:54:37-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:11:58-08:00 #28: face(book?) is best for people with pale skin 4 March 2, 2017 image_header 2019-07-24T13:32:21-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:09:09-08:00 #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a change 4 March 3, 2017 image_header 2019-06-27T04:15:32-07:00
1 2017-10-31T14:10:48-07:00 #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information 7 March 12, 2017 plain 2019-07-24T21:35:43-07:00
1 2017-10-31T14:00:15-07:00 #46, stay aware, not afraid 5 March 15, 2017 plain 2019-07-30T10:59:41-07:00
1 2017-10-31T13:58:39-07:00 #47: good design and software mask bad credibility 6 March 16, 2017 image_header 2019-07-24T22:17:31-07:00
1 2017-10-30T18:37:46-07:00 #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithms 7 March 21, 2017 plain 2020-06-13T23:02:23-07:00
1 2017-10-30T18:29:24-07:00 #59, silicon valley's entrepreneurial capitalism leaves rubble in its wake 8 March 24, 2017 plain 2020-08-02T16:59:41-07:00
1 2017-10-30T18:13:48-07:00 #67, watch those who are monetizing their watching from the shadows 4 March 28, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T14:17:07-07:00
1 2017-10-24T14:13:39-07:00 #70, reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted 5 March 29, 2017 image_header 2019-07-25T15:08:05-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:52:26-07:00 #76, learn what happens when you type a letter on your keyboard 3 April 2, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T22:10:30-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:50:41-07:00 #77, expose the costs and histories of freedom 6 April 3, 2017 plain 2020-11-09T20:53:25-08:00
1 2017-10-23T18:46:33-07:00 #79, attend to the structural problems inherent in the platform ecosystem 5 April 5, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T16:20:30-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:06:58-07:00 #94, always look for the real thing 14 April 23, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T22:04:49-07:00
1 2018-01-09T11:25:47-08:00 Alexandra Juhasz f60e7beb550e75bc077d6722b27684bbbb62d0de Some #100hardtruths of the Internet Alexandra Juhasz 10 A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet plain 2018-01-11T05:24:32-08:00 Alexandra Juhasz f60e7beb550e75bc077d6722b27684bbbb62d0de
1 2017-03-15T22:24:01-07:00 My Pledge 2 To disrupt the new President's First 100 days by posting #100truths-#fakenews committed to digital media literacy plain 2018-01-13T12:52:36-08:00
1 2017-11-06T18:50:26-08:00 #1: the real internet is a fake 13 February 18, 2017 plain 2020-08-02T15:50:21-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:49:18-08:00 #2: the fake news is very real 7 February 18, 2017 plain 2019-07-29T11:59:59-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:47:08-08:00 #4: the internet is built on deceptions 10 February 19, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T20:32:04-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:45:00-08:00 #6: today's fixes to fake news are bogus 5 February 19, 2017 plain 2019-07-23T21:13:33-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:43:56-08:00 #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy 17 February 19, 2017 plain 2019-07-29T12:07:45-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:41:30-08:00 #9: YouTube is less platform than emerging internet nation-state 5 February 20, 2017 plain 2019-06-27T03:16:17-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:33:40-08:00 #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material results 4 March 11, 2017 image_header 2019-06-05T18:16:02-07:00
1 2017-11-06T18:18:32-08:00 #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information 4 February 28, 2017 image_header 2019-07-24T13:17:04-07:00
1 2017-11-06T17:58:18-08:00 #33: speed matters; there is safety in the slow 6 March 6, 2017 plain 2019-07-24T13:57:25-07:00
1 2017-10-30T18:41:59-07:00 5 #hardtruths and 2 new pledges @#50 2 March 20, 2017 plain 2017-12-17T08:10:36-08:00
1 2017-10-30T18:34:41-07:00 #55, choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive 5 March 22, 2017 plain 2020-06-13T22:34:20-07:00
1 2017-10-30T18:30:44-07:00 #58, choose to know, name, and share your own internet truths (an invitation) 3 March 23, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T12:44:37-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:54:19-07:00 #75, no time for fools 3 April 1, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T15:35:56-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:43:35-07:00 #80, outlast virality 3 April 6, 2017 image_header 2019-07-25T16:28:14-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:38:04-07:00 #83, focus attention on the real-world applications of #fakenews 6 April 8, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T16:47:05-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:19:22-07:00 #89, ten (more!) superhardtruths about #100hardtruths (certainly not) needed 3 April 17, 2017 plain 2017-12-17T19:10:56-08:00
1 2017-10-23T18:08:47-07:00 #93, citation is not enough 3 April 22, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T21:55:39-07:00
1 2017-10-23T18:01:31-07:00 #96, make manifest the contingency of the social 5 April 25, 2017 plain 2020-08-02T17:16:53-07:00
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1 2017-11-20T12:12:50-08:00 Google and Facebook take aim at fake news 1 plain 2017-11-20T12:12:50-08:00