19. Misinformation, Memes, and Mockery
w/Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
This episode almost didn’t see the light of day. I’ve been on a few-month hiatus to figure out what to do with it. Watch the video to hear the explanation, and let me know if you like the video on Substack, or want to keep it to audio. For now, the audio is still available on all podcast platforms.
And for the record, I really like Danna. She’s hilarious.
Time Stamps
0:00 Wake up Babe, new NeoAcademia format just dropped
04:23 To increase the probability of being right, be more open to being wrong
08:00 Terror Management Theory and manmade horrors beyond comprehension
11:21 Causal Emergence: Institutions = People+
13:02 Tony Fauci and the Dumpster Fire of science/tech + politics
16:06 Real NeoAcademic shit
17:17 Irony/meme punditry
22:08 Off-label media use
25:28: Opportunities to increase tolerance for uncertainty/ambiguity
28:21Understanding Citizen’s United through punditry and mascots
31:43 Free speech vs Misinformation
34:15:Operationalizing truth and the asymmetrical production of misinformation
37:27 Not being so douchey
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