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The hurricane conspiracy complex

Posted in Climate change, Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 15, 2024 | 1 Comment »

The big question around these back-to-back hurricanes in the southeast U.S. is not why they are happening (that’s easy enough to answer), but why so many people find it easier to believe they were artificially generated by the U.S. government, the “deep state,” FEMA, industry, or some euphemistic “they” (and we know who “they” are) […]

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Mob politics, killer selfies, and the future of social media: an ecotopian perspective

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Two points of social media use call for more attention as we make sense of this week’s events at the U. S. Capitol. 1) Videos and selfies from Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies are circulating online and making it easier to identify those who participated in the attempted coup at the Capitol. Images created and […]

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Tax evasion & the dismantling of the public sector

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on February 19, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Johann Hari’s article in The Nation on How to Build a Progressive Tea Party is one of the more exciting and inspiring pieces of news I’ve read recently. Hari recounts how a group of Twitter-linked citizens outraged by David Cameron’s £7 billion cuts to social programs when a single company, cellphone giant Vodafone, was allowed […]

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