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Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to "filter out" unfavorable information.
Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image on the web using game theory.
Previous studies have been conducted on, for example, how anonymity affects our willingness to act pro-socially, and thus our concern for social image. However, the internet and social media now make it possible to edit the image we want to project of ourselves retroactively. One can therefore expect other, -- less impulsive, mechanisms to control this behavior. The purpose of the study was therefore to better understand online behavior.
Each subject participated in a cooperative situation with an anonymous person, and the participants earned real money during the experiment. They could be "good" and cooperate a lot, which is costly, or be less cooperative, which costs less. They then found out that information about how much they actually cooperated could be published online along with their name, but that they could avoid this publication if they paid to censor the information. It turned out that those who cooperated less, valued the censorship highest which meant that information about this group's actions tended to be filtered out.
"That the image people share of themselves is 'softened' on the internet is perhaps not that surprising. What is new is that this is shown under experimental control and that the will to 'filter out' is so strong that one is prepared to pay for it," explains Håkan Holm.
Hakan J. Holm, Margaret Samahita. Curating social image: Experimental evidence on the value of actions and selfies. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018; 148: 83 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2018.02.008
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:49PM (3 children)
I strongly endorse my intellectual opponents use of that tactic; nothing provides debate winning points for factual observations and reasoned analysis quite like a comeback of "yeah, well, so what if that's all true, because you got cooties". So yeah, keep right on doing that. As a way of looking at and modeling the world, leftism and progressivism is so obsolete and past its due date that there really is no other possible response that can be taken more seriously. In the streets there's violence, I guess. Brings up the old Ghandi quote ending in "and then you win". The times they are a-changing.
I admit I enjoy finding extreme stuff to quote, but if you actually google you'll find it was all true. Serious left wing propaganda about how Friends is now problematic because of episodes like "the one where Monica was fat-shamed", or the time Joey carried around a womans purse so they teased him about going trans, or the time Ross or one of the guys basically raped some chick by not asking for consent 55 times after she had a sip of booze, and many other things. In the 90s only Marxists watched Friends, in the 10s only Nazis watch Friends. Also the Thomas thing, insane as it makes leftists sound, is also real, its very problematic by current standards that Thomas doesn't have any black engine friends and Lady Hatt always wears dresses in support of oppression by the patriarchy and crazy stuff like that.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:05PM (2 children)
Thanks! You made me laugh out loud.
I have no idea where you get this stuff, but the only person I've *ever* heard blathering on about that bullshit is you, VLM.
Please do tell where you find these batshit crazy people who appear to piss you off so much, so I can stay away from them. If you *really* want some wacky stuff to wave around and proclaim to any who will listen to you that these are the "mainstream" folks out there who call themselves "the left" or "progressives", check these sites out:
https://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/ [wordpress.com]
https://witchwind.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
https://factcheckme.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
https://reallyrad.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
https://twanzphobic.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com]
That should keep you in material for weeks.
Just for the record, those (as well as the crap you spewed) aren't reasonable, rational people. And they're not mainstream *anything* They're mostly angry and batshit crazy.
And for the record, your statement
while true, is quite disingenuous. By pretty much every measure, the *entire world* (based on violent death per capita from war, crime, even accidents) has been declining for *centuries* with a few upticks like WWI and WWII. That trend has *accelerated* over the past 70 years. In fact, we currently live in the most peaceful, prosperous and free world in human history (and almost certainly pre-history, but since we have no records of pre-history, we'll leave that aside).
So. Let's see. You make misleading statements about the state of the world. You find angry, unbalanced and flat-out batshit crazy people and call them mainstream "leftists" and progressives. Not even close.
What's more, actual, real, honest-to-goodness leftists have *never* had any power in the US. Ever. The vast majority that you paint with that broad brush are center-left and center-right. Although I suppose from your extreme far-right perspective, Duterte is commie, right?
Please do continue. You provide a valuable service. It's so much fun mocking you VLM. And thanks again for a good time!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 23 2018, @02:13AM (1 child)
I am so glad I'm not the only one fighting this tide of rancid right-wing sludge that's inundated this form. Place is starting to look like 8chan, only dumber...thank you for rolling this Sisyphean rock up this hateful Hadean shitpile time and time again with me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 23 2018, @02:53AM
I am, however, doubtful that you will be welcomed and not swiftly banished for your inability to communicate with people.