saulalbert.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Social Science/Social Psychology at the Dept. of Communication and Media @lborouniversity: aesthetics, phil sci, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, art, technology.
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On defeasibility in lying by Nick Llewellyn journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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On designed ambiguity in flirtation by Susan Speer www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Musk is incredibly skilled at manipulating attention online, and this is a great example of how it is done through designedly ambiguous gestures. Somehow the wider media ecosystem needs to learn not to feed the trolls, although this seems unlikely given what troll feeding does for their bottom line
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Musk's subsequent denial: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired." is even more telling. The designed ambiguity allows him to troll political opponents into expressing outrage, and inoculates him and political allies against accusations of fascism.
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Thanks for doing this Liz.