Renee DiResta Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@strnnk_ In some cases yes, they’re effective propaganda vectors. Not sure where you’re from but you can probably recall old war posters and their slogans, right? But online remix culture is also organic. There’s a recent book called “Memes to Movements” by An Xiao Mina you might like.

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@SteveStuWill There's a book by Todd Rose called Collective Illusions on this phenomenon that's very interesting. I think about it a lot in the context of the batshit bait that goes viral on this site in particular.

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The Neil Postman book that @ezraklein references in here - “Amusing Ourselves to Death” - is worth a read. As I’ve been working on my 📕 I’ve been curious ab solutions broached in other media environments. One of P’s main suggestions is that we watch less TV. Agency/adaptation.

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I think about this passage a lot. Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, 1962 https://t.co/1eLD8AqZWC

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A few mos ago I went looking for📚 on rumors & comms strategies in past pandemics. I found “An Epidemic of Rumors” by Jon D. Lee in Stanford Library. It was way back in the kind of stacks you see in movies, where lights turn on with bang as you walk down a vast, deserted hallway. https://t.co/ioT9QmxxfS

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“The shadow has become the substance.” — Boorstin’s book “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America” should be required reading https://t.co/NtN97hbbDo