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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'>Dear
Wolfgang and All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>The current situation, in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and elsewhere, reminded me of
Wittgenstein’s characterization of language ‘games’. Many people seem to like
to repeat this concept as conveying some kind of wisdom, knowledge, science -
whatever. I am sure you have all seen references to information ‘games’.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>I think this is a deadly <i><span style='font-style:italic'>anti-social
</span></i>concept that detracts from the building and credibility of a needed
new synergy. If all things are ‘games’, and games are about winning and losing,
everything is about winning and losing and Trumpism has found its theoretical
foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>As a tiny, minimum effort toward remediation, a word in use in the
Covid-19 context, I propose avoiding reference to Wittgenstein in the discussion
of serious issues. Wittgenstein’s doctrine has been called ‘anti-philosophy’;
in my opinion, this still gives it far too much value.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>If someone sees a way of using Wittgenstein to further the common
good, I would gladly change my view on this point.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Joseph <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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Fis [mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Wolfgang Hofkirchner<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> jeudi, 10 décembre 2020
09:15<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Loet Leydesdorff<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> fis; Joseph Brenner<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fis] On
disinformation. Why disinformation survives</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>so much discussion, so difficult to enter for me. let me just point to
a few issues only:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>@loet: your first question to me: how we can know what is the solution?
my answer: there are many hints, in particular, from sciences (as in
corona-crisis) but also from ancient wisdom – especially the chinese tianxua
with which i got acquainted since the work of tingyang zhao was published in
german this year – on what could be done globally and locally. but it needs an
effort by a collective intelligence making up a quorum for effectuating change,
and we don’t know how many people are needed and when it would work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>your second question concerning the anthropological setting. my answer:
that’s just the disposition with which we are endowed by phylogenesis and which
we can cultivate. it’s just the possibility but it does not determine when and
if adaption to it wil be actualised.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>then an additional point @all of you: a) we can make a comparison:
today, it is up to us to make a choice whether or not we grasp the new task
before us – to build up global humanity on a metalevel. our ancestors were good
in making the choice to make the first steps toward humanity by detecting their
new kind of co-operation. b) what is good has to do with systems. systems are
after peter corning’s synergism hypotheis synergetic – otherwise they would not
be systems. if a system can’t provide synergy any more, it will decay. our
current situation can be analysed that we don’t have an overall system
providing synergy while all factions of mankind compete for synergies for their
own at the cost of synergy for the other parts, which is the cuse for all the
global challenges. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>finally, again @loet and joseph and others: as to binarism. i made an
attempt to categorise disinformation as failed information, using, like luhmann
his codes, opposites, but on a scale, to measure the quality of certain
manifestations of information types. you find the table and its description
here on the right side: <a
href="https://gsis.at/projects/#InformationEthicsRS">https://gsis.at/projects/#InformationEthicsRS</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>w.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Am 09.12.2020 um 14:34 schrieb Loet Leydesdorff <<a
href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Joseph and colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I am not sure that I correctly understand you, but
I agree that one should not stay with binary distinctions. Dichotomous
variables provide a low scale for the measurement. Both Luhmann and
Spencer-Brown emphasize binary distinctions. Binary distinctions may have a
function at the epistemological level in order to discuss and hypothesize
relevant dimensions. In most cases, however, one can move forward, for
example to probabilities (0 < p < 1)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>For example, in empirical studies it is not so
fruitful to distinguish in a binary mode between true and false, or
payment/non-payment. Grey-shades are important. Some statements are
more true than others. One may have paid 10% of a bill.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>In addition to these methodological advantages of
moving to more precise measurement scales, the relation between
probability and Shannon's information theory is straightforward. Zeros and
ones do not provide information. p = 0.5 and 1 - p = 0.5 leads
precisely to 1 bit of information (H = - 0.5 log(0.5) - (l - 0.5) log(1 -
0.5) = 1/2 + 1/2 = 1. This is the definition of the
bit. 50/50 contains a maximum of information.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The issue is the specification of uncertainty.
However, 0 log (0) and 1 log(1) are both zero. A binary approach does
therefore tend to distract from an empirical and numerical approach. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Loet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508"></a></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>Loet Leydesdorff</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>________________________________</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam <br>
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net"
title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net"><font color="#954f72"><span
style='color:#954F72'>loet@leydesdorff.net<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font></a>;<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/"><font
color="#954f72"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://www.leydesdorff.net/</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en"><font
color="#954f72"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en</span></font></a></span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>ORCID:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098"><font color="#954f72"><span
style='color:#954F72'>http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098</span></font></a>;
</span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive
Knowledge" at</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508"><font
size=2 color="#954f72"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#954F72'>https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>------ Original Message ------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: "Joseph Brenner" <<a
href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>To: "Mark Johnson" <<a
href="mailto:johnsonmwj1@gmail.com">johnsonmwj1@gmail.com</a>>;
"fis" <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cc:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sent: 12/9/2020 10:10:38 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Subject: RE: [Fis] FW: On disinformation. Why
disinformation survives<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Dear Mark J. and Loet,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Your last two notes state very clearly the key properties of
the complex system of people and their capacities, interactions and
communications. It is a good place from which to continue the discussion. I
would just like to suggest that the latter can be made more fruitful if
explicit or implicit binary distinctions can be excluded from our common
‘language’:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>The
conceptions of Spencer-Brown and Luhmann are formal (diagrammatic) and
epistemic. They do not describe the properties of real systems and the
interactions that prevail in them. They follow nothing but their own
semantic rules and incorporate pre-relativistic ideas of time and
space.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>It should
not be assumed that systems must provide<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>complete<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></i>descriptions
of themselves. Nothing real can be ‘completely’ described anyway, so
why suggest it as a criticism? Systems are characterized by<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>both<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></i>indeterminacy
and determinacy, and to call the former ‘unresolvable’ begs the
question.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>When Loet
writes: <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:windowtext'>it is difficult
to tell someone else that s/he is misinformed</span></font><font
size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'> I think there is a
possible categorial confusion: it may indeed be difficult to say some
things to other people, but these things may be correct and it may be
necessary to say them, literally, for the common good. Please do not
imagine that I am somehow insulated from the probability (hopefully
low) of error. If I did not accept this probability,<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>then</span></i><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>I
could be criticized for being inconsistent, even<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>prima facie<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></i>misinformed.
I do not think this, and only ask that my approach be given<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:
italic'>no less attention</span></i><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>than
what is paid to more familiar ones. <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font
size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>We are not,
at least I am not, experts in psychology who can define the pathology
of mental phenomena scientifically. (To call some two-dimensional
curves ‘pathological’ is pure metaphor.) Nevertheless, I think Mark’s
point 3 about a decline in variety, echoing Ashby, is an excellent
perspective since it describes things in terms of change. Just
following the line of my first sentence, it might be useful to point
out the necessity of limiting variety if it, too, grows out of
proportion.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>As I look at what I have just written, the task of
distinguishing information and disinformation as<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i><span style='font-style:italic'>types</span></i><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>is no different from that of
identifying how they, and other binary pairs, are also similar and overlap.
The alternative is to make the kind of error ridiculed by Ionesco in a play
(I have forgotten which) in which several actors shout at once: “It’s not
this but that; it’s not this but that!”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma'>Fis [mailto:<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b>Mark
Johnson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>mardi, 8 décembre 2020 22:42<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>fis<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [Fis] FW: On disinformation.
Why disinformation survives</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Loet, all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes it is complex - but fascinating, and throws up
some fascinating points about the meaningfulness of categorising
"disinformation".<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I can't see that it is necessary to distinguish
disinformation from information: this distinction seems at the wrong level
of analysis.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span>Echoing
Joe's point that there is a difference between systemic viability
(altruism) and pathology, rather than specific messages being
disinformative or not, can I suggest the following:<o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>1. Disinformation is a meta-systemic
categorisation of a systemic pathology;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>2. To recognise its own pathology is to recognise
a systemic loss of variety and a reduced capacity to self-organise the
communication system in comparison to the past; This is the
"meaningfulness" the metasystem establishes in its own systemic
behaviour;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>3. The meaning of disinformation, like all
meaning, results from the construction of a selection mechanism which
determines "this is disinformation". That selection mechanism
must be anticipatory, must it not? And for it to be anticipatory (for it to
foresee the pathological consequences of a pattern of decline in variety),
the pattern of its own historical development (or decline) must enter into
the process of constructing the anticipatory system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The problem of disinformation then highlights the
fact that the evolutionary history of communication and historical
meaning-making is entailed by all our meaning-making processes: it is not
just that meaning arises from anticipating future events, but anticipating
future events in the light of anticipating the system's capacity to
anticipate. I must say (with apologies to Joe who is no fan of Luhmann!),
that Luhmann's late turn to Spencer-Brown and the embedding of time in
distinction-making (see here: <a
href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1743%28199711/12%2914%3A6%3C359%3A%3AAID-SRES160%3E3.0.CO%3B2-R">The
control of intransparency - Luhmann - 1997 - Systems Research and
Behavioral Science - Wiley Online Library</a>) makes more sense when
we appreciate the meaningfulness of disinformation:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>"</span></font><font size=2 color="#1c1d1e"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1C1D1E'>General
systems theory shows that the combination of self</span></font><font
size=2 color="#1c1d1e" face="MS Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#1C1D1E'>‐</span></font><font size=2
color="#1c1d1e" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#1C1D1E'>referential operations and operational closure (or the re</span></font><font
size=2 color="#1c1d1e" face="MS Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#1C1D1E'>‐</span></font><font size=2
color="#1c1d1e" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#1C1D1E'>entry of output as input) generates a surplus of possible
operations and therefore intransparency of the system for its own
operation. The system cannot produce a complete description of itself. It
has to cope with its own unresolvable indeterminacy. To be able to operate
under such conditions the system has to introduce time. It has to
distinguish between its past and its future. It has to use a memory
function that includes both remembering and forgetting. And it needs an
oscillator function to represent its future. This means, for example, that
the future has to be imagined as achieving or not achieving the goals of
the system."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 19:05, Loet Leydesdorff <<a
href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Mark, Joe, Terry, and other colleagues, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>It seems to me that this is complex. The
complexity comes to the fore if we realize that one needs criteria about
what is disinformation and what can be considered as information. For
example, the criteria will be different for Democrats or Republicans in the
US. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>If we assume with Niklas Luhmann that society is
differentiated and also differentiating into functional subsystems with
different codes in the communication, one can expect the different logics
to operate upon one another and also to confuse, have unintended effects,
and irritate one another. It is relatively simple as long as "Roma
dixit' what is communication and what is disinformation. Traditionally, the
role hasbeen taken over by the law system. But we cannot go to court for
each miscommunication/dis-information. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who authorized the social media (Facebook) to take
the policing role. Which codes are developed and used? Empirical questions.
One expects self-organization of the communication leading to
differentiation to prevail, and organization in forms of operational
coupling and thus irritation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Things become complex as soon as it is no longer
obvious what is mis-information and as soon as one is aware that there are
no standards given. Perhaps, moral standards but these no longer work in a
pluriform society. "Cuius regio, eius religio" was the principle
in 1658 at the Peace of Westfalia. But it assumed sovereignty. Nowadays, we
have freedom of religion and it is difficult to tell someone else that s/he
is misinformed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Loet<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508"></a></span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
font-weight:bold'>Loet Leydesdorff</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>________________________________</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam <br>
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net"
title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></a>;<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/">http://www.leydesdorff.net/</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>ORCID:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098</a>;
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive
Knowledge" at</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508"><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030599508</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>------ Original Message ------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: "Mark Johnson" <<a
href="mailto:johnsonmwj1@gmail.com">johnsonmwj1@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>To: "fis" <<a
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sent: 12/8/2020 5:14:32 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Subject: Re: [Fis] FW: On disinformation. Why
disinformation survives<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi Joe,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regarding your "objective altruistic
criteria" (I quite agree), is this in Bob Ulanowicz's and Loet's
territory, do you think? Bob - are you there? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Is this a trade-off between autocatalysis and
mutual information in communication ecosystems? That would provide some
kind of metric - particularly in the light of Loet's work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Personally, I would expect distortions in
anticipatory systems which might be analysable through communication
processes. Trump's tweets, and the chilling dynamics unfolding around what
is obviously a stand-off in electoral trust are an excellent test-ground
for some practical work. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 08:37, Joseph Brenner <<a
href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Dear All,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Disinformation survives and flourishes in part because
supported by statements such as those of Bloom. They are strictly
equivalent in form to Trump’s saying that “there are good people on both</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>sides”, when one of those sides is composed of people who kill
peaceful protesters.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>In the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><ns3:country-region
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z"
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ns1:class=""><ns3:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
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w:endInsDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" ns2:st="on" ns1:class=""><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>United
States</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region></ns3:place></ns3:country-region><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>, despite their uniformly good reaction
to the current attacks on the electoral process, the courts will not be
able to help in a catastrophically large number of cases in the future.
Apart from the ideologue majority in the Supreme Court, the lower courts
have been stuffed with young right wing reactionaries who will poison
decisions for at least a generation.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>A new process is required, one that explicitly recognizes the
existence of objective altruistic criteria in behavior, where economic or
social self-interest can be shown to be absent. I order not to drown in
pessimism, I repeat to myself the statement of the biologist E. O. Wilson:<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><span lang=EN-GB>“Selfishness
beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.
Everything else is commentary.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>I like to think that this discussion, in a small way, is part
of such a process, since the trans-categorial role of information is
crucial.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Best wishes,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Joseph</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><span
class=apple-converted-space><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma'>Fis [mailto:<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b>Howard
Bloom<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>mardi, 8 décembre 2020 02:39<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com">dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</a>;<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [Fis] On disinformation</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>thanks, dai.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>one man's truth is another
man's lie. each subculture has its own truth and its own devil
spilling disinformation.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>to trumpers, joe biden is part
of a coup to take the white house fraudulently. to trumpers, the democrats
are the liars. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>to anti-trumpers, trump is
trying to pull off a coup to upend the election. trump and his
"army" are the liars. the disinformation spewers.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>which group is right?
which truth is right?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>how do we judge? especially
if freedom of speech is one of our most basic values?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>so far, we are relying on the
courts.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>with warmth and
oomph--howard</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
From: Dai Griffiths <<a href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com">dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</a>><br>
To:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><<a
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
Sent: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 9:05 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Fis] On disinformation</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That's all true, Howard.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I think it is important to
distinguish between compliance and consensus. Throwing dissidents to the
lions does the trick for compliance, and preventing challenges to power (as
per the shocking first chapter of Foucault's Discipline and Punish).<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As to consensus, the creation of
a canon is partly a practical matter: given it takes so long to copy a
book, which ones do we think are worth copying and sharing. Printing, and
now information technology, have completely changed these decisions. But on
top of these features of the medium, there is a political process. For
example, it seems likely that leaders in early<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><ns3:country-region
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w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region></ns3:place></ns3:country-region><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>saw how consensus through control
of the canon could provide an alternative (or a useful addition) to lion
feeding as a method for achieving authority, by promoting Confucian ideas.
Both strategies are at work in<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><ns3:place
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z"
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ns1:class=""><st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place></ns3:place><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>today, it seems.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The two strategies continue side
by side in differing combinations. Some absolute rulers don't worry too
much about consensus outside the group of those standing in line to
assassinate them. Others focus more on control of the development of
consensus through control of the communications ecology, and perhaps<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><ns3:country-region
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z"
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w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region></ns3:place></ns3:country-region><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>has taken the lead in this.
Neither of these two extremes is attractive, but both are widespread. Most
of us on this list have been fortunate to live in a democratic space carved
out between the rock of forced compliance, and the hard place of
manipulated consensus. The configuration and maintenance of that space
always involves hard work, compromise, and trade-offs that are never ideal
for everybody (and maybe for nobody), but I am certainly grateful for it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If we want to say something
sensible about all this, and if we want to make any practical step which
might preserve both our discourses and democracy, then I think we need to
address two quite different kinds of questions:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1) What is the impact of
information technology, its accompanying regulatory framework and
established patterns of use, on the ecology of communications? How might
the patterns change if we altered this or that part of the system? These
are cybernetic questions.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2) Who is benefiting from the
emerging communications ecology, what are they doing to shape it's future,
and why? What (if any) changes would we like to persuade legislators and
organisations to make in response and how can this be achieved? These are
political questions.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dai</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On 06/12/2020 02:16, Howard
Bloom wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>dai,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>as an indication that your
idea that disinformation is the norm and consensus the exception,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>look how hard previous ages
have worked to impose consensus. spreading roman culture amongst
tribal peoples in the days of the roman empire. throwing
dissidents to the lions. making sure that everyone's education was the
same with the same roughly five books studied and the same alphabet used
from roughly 200 bc onward in china. hunting heretics once<span
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-----Original
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From: Dai Griffiths<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
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To:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
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Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2020 9:41 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Fis] On disinformation</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We tend to think of
'surveillance capitalism' and other related trends as being a disruption of
normality. But seen from a longer perspective, perhaps we are living in an
unusual period (or the possibly the end of it) in which there has been
relatively widespread social agreement about the nature of the world that
we are living in. "Ask the priest" used to be the answer to
questions of eschatology or social propriety (and often still is) but that
doesn't help much in establishing who is giving the orders or why, and what
is going on in the town over the hill. We have relied on newspapers for
that, and, in the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><ns3:country-region
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w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region></ns3:place></ns3:country-region>,
the BBC. As a result, flat earthers haven't much traction recently compared
with the conflict between Galileo and the church, and even McCarthyism was
primarily about economic power and control, not as unhinged as the
witchcraft hysteria that Miller (rightly) compared it to. If it is true
that we have been living in an oasis of relative consensus, where did that
consensus come from?<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I would argue that it emerged
from the inherent limitations in access to printing technology, and the
editorial, commercial, political and social processes that developed to
cope with that limited access. It is these processes that generated the
authority of some ideas over others, the generalised trust in some media
rather than others, and the ability to identify consistent biases in those
that were trusted.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I suggest that we should
recognise that disinformation, fake news, and plain old gossip, are the
default state for human social interactions. It is evolved and designed
social structures and institutions that overcome this. Our challenge is
then to disentangle the way that that informational authority was generated
in the past, and the (perhaps disfunctional) way that it is generated at
present. My suspicion is that we won't get far in improving the situation
unless we question the central role of the recommender algorithms that have
taken over much of the work of human editors in determining what is seen
heard and read, and by whom. To have any chance of achieving political
traction in the face of commercial interests and personal preferences,
proposals for change in that area will have to tell and extremely clear
story about how we got to where we are, where we should try to go next, and
how we could get there.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Best</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dai</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On 04/12/2020 14:06, Pedro C.
Marijuan wrote:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear Terry and FIS colleagues,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks for the reflections--I
will try to continue with rather disconnected ideas.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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...<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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??</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Best regards</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>--Pedro</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>El 01/12/2020 a las 22:54,
Terrence W. DEACON escribió:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear Pedro,<span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Great suggestions. I like the
idea of an ongoing separate thread addressing disinformation.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Of course I only addressed
Western disinformation and didn't even touch on highly massaged information
that is often disseminated with centralized governmental control.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And Yes McLuhan is definitely
relevant.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I wonder how he would think
about the effects of these new media.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>How do they reshape the nature
of content?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>How they can be understood using
his notions of hot and cool?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What is now in the rear
view mirror within the new media that once was in the foreground?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On these matters Bob Logan might
want to weigh in.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor Terrence W. Deacon<br>
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w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName></ns3:placename></ns3:place>,
Berkeley</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>Pedro C. Marijuán</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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shape=rect><font color="#4453ea"><span style='color:#4453EA'>www.avast.com</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>_______________________________________________ Fis
mailing list<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" shape=rect>Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" shape=rect>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>---------- INFORMACIÓN SOBRE
PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL Ud. recibe este correo por
pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Puede
encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente
enlace:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas"
shape=rect><span lang=IT>https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</span></a></span></font><span
class=apple-converted-space><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Recuerde
que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde
la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://listas.unizar.es/" shape=rect><span lang=EN-GB>http://listas.unizar.es</span></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>----------<span
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Professor David (Dai) <ns3:city
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:endInsDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" ns2:st="on"
ns1:class=""><ns3:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" ns2:st="on" ns1:class="">Griffiths</ns3:place></ns3:city></span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>SKYPE: daigriffiths</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phones (please don't leave voice mail)</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><span
lang=IT>UK Mobile +44 (0)7491151559</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> Spanish Mobile: + 34 687955912</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>email</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><a
href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com" shape=rect><span lang=IT>dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></font></pre></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>_______________________________________________<br>
Fis mailing list<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" shape=rect><span
lang=IT>Fis@listas.unizar.es</span></a></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" shape=rect><span
lang=IT>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
----------<br>
INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br>
<br>
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por
la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br>
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el
siguiente enlace:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas"
shape=rect><span lang=IT>https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de
baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/" shape=rect><span
lang=EN-GB>http://listas.unizar.es</span></a></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-- </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Professor David (Dai) <ns3:city
w:insAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:endInsDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" ns2:st="on"
ns1:class=""><ns3:place w:insAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:endInsDate="2020-12-10T13:08:00Z" ns2:st="on" ns1:class="">Griffiths</ns3:place></ns3:city></span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>SKYPE: daigriffiths</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Phones (please don't leave voice mail)</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font><span
lang=IT>UK Mobile +44 (0)7491151559</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> Spanish Mobile: + 34 687955912</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>email</span><o:p></o:p></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><a
href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com" shape=rect><span lang=IT>dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></font></pre></div>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>_______________________________________________<br>
Fis mailing list<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" shape=rect><span
lang=IT>Fis@listas.unizar.es</span></a></span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" shape=rect><span
lang=IT>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
----------<br>
INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br>
<br>
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por
la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br>
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el
siguiente enlace:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas"
shape=rect><span lang=IT>https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</span></a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de
baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/" shape=rect>http://listas.unizar.es</a><br>
----------</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>_______________________________________________<br>
Fis mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
<a href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br>
----------<br>
INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br>
<br>
Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por
la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br>
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el
siguiente enlace:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br>
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de
baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.<br>
<a href="http://listas.unizar.es/">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br>
----------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br clear=all>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr. Mark William Johnson<br>
Institute of Learning and Teaching<br>
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences<br>
University of Liverpool<br>
<br>
Phone: 07786 064505<br>
Email:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:johnsonmwj1@gmail.com">johnsonmwj1@gmail.com</a><br>
Blog:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/">http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br clear=all>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>--<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<div>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr. Mark William Johnson<br>
Institute of Learning and Teaching<br>
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences<br>
University of Liverpool<br>
<br>
Phone: 07786 064505<br>
Email:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="mailto:johnsonmwj1@gmail.com">johnsonmwj1@gmail.com</a><br>
Blog:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com/">http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
<span style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;
widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>Fis
mailing list</span><br style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;
text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
</span></font><a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" style='font-variant-caps: normal;
orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Fis@listas.unizar.es</span></font></a><font size=1
face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'><br
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
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</span></font><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis"
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'>http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</span></font></a><font
size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'><br
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
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widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>----------</span><br
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
<span style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;
widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>INFORMACI�N
SOBRE PROTECCI�N DE DATOS DE CAR�CTER PERSONAL</span><br style='font-variant-caps: normal;
orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'>
<br style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
<span style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;
widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>Ud.
recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la
Universidad de Zaragoza.</span><br style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;
text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
<span style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;
widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>Puede
encontrar toda la informaci�n sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace:<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></span></font><a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas"
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'>https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</span></font></a><font
size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'><br
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
<span style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;
widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>Recuerde
que si est� suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la
propia aplicaci�n en el momento en que lo desee.</span><br style='font-variant-caps: normal;
orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'>
</span></font><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/" style='font-variant-caps: normal;
orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
word-spacing:0px'><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'>http://listas.unizar.es</span></font></a><font size=1
face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'><br
style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'>
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widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px'>----------</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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