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Vi tillbringar stora delar av våra liv på sociala medier. Vad gör det med oss? Hur påverkas vi av vad algoritmerna väljer att visa? Och går det att förena företagens mål med samhällets väl?

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Cailin O'Connor - professor i logik och vetenskapsfilosofi vid UC Irvine

• Renée DiResta - författare och tidigare forskare vid Stanford Internet Observatory

• Nicholas Carr - författare

• Cory Doctorow - författare och tech-journalist

Böcker

• The Chaos Machine - Max Fisher (2022)

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Updated Edition - av Nicholas Carr (2020)

• Measure what Matters - John Doerr (2018)

Artiklar

• Six years on, still no justice for Myanmar’s Rohingya - FN (2023)

• ‘It would be good if I too died’: Rape as weapon of war against Rohingya - Salma Abdelaziz (CNN, 2017)

• U.N. official says will raise sexual violence against Rohingya with ICC - Serajul Quadir (Reuters, 2017)

• Crackdown on Burmese Muslims - Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper (2002)

• U.N. investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis - Tom Miles (Reuters, 2018)

• Inside the Backlash Against Facebook - TRACY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT (Time, 2006)

• Algorithmic Extremism: Examining YouTube’s Rabbit Hole of Radicalization - Mark Ledwich, Anna Zaitsev (arXiv, 2019)

• How YouTube Radicalized Brazil - Jonas Kaiser, Yasodara Córdova (NewYork Times, 2019)

• Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility - Brady et. al. (Nature Human Behaviour, 2023)

• The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online - Brady et. al. (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020)

• Likes, anger emojis and RSVPs: the math behind Facebook’s News Feed — and how it backfired - Rachel Metz (CNN Business, 2021)

• Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations (Amnesty International, 2022)

• Pro-Vaxxers Get Out: Anti-Vaccination Advocates Influence Undecided First-Time, Pregnant, and New Mothers on Facebook - Bradshow et. al. (Health Communication 2021)

• The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful - Kaitlyn Tiffany (The Atlantic, 2020)

• What Brazil’s Failed Coup Means for the Future of Its Democracy - Yasmeen Serhan (Time, 2023)

• Here’s why your efforts to convince anti-vaxxers aren’t working - Brooke Harrington (The Guardian, 2021)

• How Sociologists Can Battle Covid Denialism - Brooke Harrington (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021)

• When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators - Lee et. al. (Digital Journalism, 2021)

• Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization - Bail et. al. (PNAS, 2018)

• Thinking Fast and Furious: Emotional Intensity and Opinion Polarization in Online Media - David Asker, Elias Dinas (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2019)

• Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online -  Pennycook et. al. (Nature, 2021)

• Trump, Twitter, and truth judgments: The effects of “disputed” tags and political knowledge on the judged truthfulness of election misinformation - John C. Blanchar, Catherine J. Norris (Misinformation Review, 2024)

Podcasts och andra ljud och videos

• Land Of The Giants - Vox Media

• Your Undivided Attention - Center For Humane Technology

• Max Fisher on How Silicon Valley Has Rewired Our Brains | Offline Podcast (2022)

• Rohingya refugees mark anniversary of exodus, demand safe return to Myanmar (AP, 2024)

• What's behind the $150 billion Rohingya-Facebook lawsuit? (DW News, 2022)

• Facebook will fuel more unrest, whistle-blower tells UK lawmakers (AlJazeera, 2022)

• Mark Zuckerberg talks about connecting the world (CGTN America, 2016)

• The Toxic Potential of YouTube’s Feedback Loop - CADE Tech Policy Workshop (USFDataInstitute, 2020)

• Bad science: AI used to target kids with disinformation on YouTube - BBC World Service (2023)

• How Social Media Rewired Our Minds & Our World with Max Fisher - Chicago Humanities Festival (2023)

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Fireside Chat With News Corp’s Thomson - Wall Street Journal (2019)

• The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream - VOX (2021)

• Disinfo Discussions: Cognitive Science on the Spread of False Information with Brendan Nyhan - Aspen Digital (2021)

• Thousands orphaned by Myanmar violence against Rohingya - Aljazeera (2017)

• Facebook accused of inciting ethnic violence in Ethiopia • FRANCE 24 English (2024)

• Lynching in Jharkhand Over Social Media Rumours - India Today (2017)

• Mark Zuckerberg aims to put the entire world online - CNN (2013)

• YouTube's Algorithm Keeps Suggesting Home Videos Of Kids To Pedophiles (CBS News, 2019)

• 'The Algorithm' - How YouTube Search & Discovery Works - YouTube (2017)

Musik

• Martin D. Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• Michael Andrews - Peter And Sylvie

• Mac Quayle - 1.0_3-fucksociety.mp3

• Kid Loco - Theme From The Graffiti Artist

• Cliff Martinez - I Got Time

• Jesper Kyd - Tension In The Nest

• Cliff Martinez - I Can't Dig Her Out

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Ten Second Agony

• Cliff Martinez - Get Us To The Front Line

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pain Speedball

• Michael McCann - Home

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Colin Stetson - Mothers And Daughters

• Breakmaster Cylinder - Catbus Catbus Where Have You Been

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Buon Giorno

• WOW MOM WOW - Tryptoreal

• Jon Brion - Strange Bath

• Michael Andrews - Peter And Sylvie

• Vince Pope - Coming Down

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem After Problem

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Vince Pope - Who Are You

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Cliff Martinez - I'm Sick

• Cliff Martinez - I Can't Dig Her Out

• Jon Brion - CUBES

• Wojciech Golzcewski - Setting Up

• Breakmaster Cylinder - Rosie Makes Breakfast

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Too Too

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• Clint Mansell - Finish It (Feat. Kronos Quartet)

• Martin D. Fowler- Delaying The Inevitable

• Cliff Martinez - I'm In The Pink

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Randy - Addicts Of Communication