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Social Media, Information Markets, and the Attention Economy, with Prof. Vincent Hendricks
Social Media, Information Markets, and the Attention Economy, with Prof. Vincent Hendricks
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Prof. Vincent Hendricks, Professor of Formal Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, discusses his new book The Ministry of Truth: Big Tech's Influence over Facts, Feelings, and Fictions.Prof. Hendricks shares how social media are like investment banks in the attention economy, how information is packaged and sold, and what Big Tech's growing influence on critical infrastructure means for politics and society.
Released:
Sep 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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Social Media and Political Youth Organizations in Denmark, with Emilie Demant: Emilie Demant, social media coordinator for Venstres Ungdom, shares her insights into how a Danish political youth organization is using social media to engage young voters with politics. We discuss how Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter are each used differently to communicate politics with young Danes, as well as what types of user-generated content Emilie receives when managing these social media accounts. Emilie highlights the visual element of social media by stressing that memes, GIFs, and videos drive the most engagement on social media, and here digital marketing and graphic design play a key role. We also discuss the differences between a youth political organization and the parent political party, Venstre, and what that means for their social media use. Although exhibiting different rules of political communication on social media (especially on Snapchat), interestingly, both Venstre and Ve by Social Media and Politics