Daily Archives: July 20, 2015

How the Internet Has Brought Us Too Close Together (and the Wisdom of Trolls)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Alastair Roberts

A couple of days ago, Scot McKnight posted on the subject of ‘crowdpounding’ and ‘crowdaffirming’, remarking upon the treatment of both Ellen Pao (Reddit’s Former CEO) and Julie Rodgers. McKnight traces these phenomena back to the underlying dynamic of ‘groupthink’: … Continue reading →

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