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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Terry and FIS colleagues,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the reflections--I will try
to continue with rather disconnected ideas.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The term 'surveillance capitalism'
introduced by Shoshana Zuboff (indeed complemented with a parallel
'surveillance authoritarianism') is addressed to cover the new
negative aspects of current technological developments. However,
my opinion is that these phenomena are inherent in all human
societies in all epochs, for there is always a tension, say,
between the individual "fitness" and the whole social "commons",
which can be set in quite many different dynamic equilibrium
points, basically maintained via circulating or communicating info
flows. It is easy to see that information, disinformation,
surveillance, persuasion, and coercion travel together in the
socialization-communication pack. Historically, every new means of
communication (then we land on McLuhan) alters those social
equilibria and somehow demands a social or cultural reaction to
re-establish an acceptable collective situation. The problem now,
you mentioned in the previous post, is the enormous concentration
of power, of brute info flows, around these new media--without
appropriate social curation at the time being. I doubt that these
technologies can bring the solution by themselves . Institutional,
social intervention would be needed... Scholarly analysis might
be important, providing cues on the the influence on individual
and collective moods/personalities, on the possible counteracting
institutional alternatives and on the needed new cultural norms to
abide along these new forms of communication (sort of 'traffic
regulations'), even a personal hygiene of communication... <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The problems are far more serious,
complex, and faster than in McLuhan's time. We have to reinvent
his views... But how can we organize a collective, cumulative
discussion? I was thinking that a feasible first step, apart of
what we can do directly in the list, could be calling for a
Special Issue in some interesting, multidisciplinary Journal.
Well, at the time being, Terry, Joseph, and myself are promoting a
sort of ad hoc group to move things--anyone else would join??</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best regards</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--Pedro</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 01/12/2020 a las 22:54, Terrence W.
DEACON escribió:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Pedro,
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<div>Great suggestions. I like the idea of an ongoing separate
thread addressing disinformation.
<div>Of course I only addressed Western disinformation and
didn't even touch on highly massaged information that is
often disseminated with centralized governmental control.</div>
<div>This disinforms by selective censorship and redundancy
and is increasingly taking advantage of the myriad new
forms of surveillance that can be used to shape the
information made available to different targeted
audiences.</div>
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<div>And Yes McLuhan is definitely relevant.</div>
<div>I wonder how he would think about the effects of
these new media.</div>
<div>How do they reshape the nature of content?</div>
<div>How they can be understood using his notions of hot
and cool?</div>
<div>What is now in the rear view mirror within the new
media that once was in the foreground?</div>
<div>On these matters Bob Logan might want to weigh in.</div>
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University of California, Berkeley</div>
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