At the end of this lesson, students will:
- be able to describe the main threats to deliberative democracy
- be able to describe technological disruptions in the public sphere
- know the concept of “the hype machine” as an interpretation of social media mechanisms
Lesson’s short presentation
Lesson’s reading
Additional study material
On the society of singularities: Andreas Reckwitz, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WIx2PGkl_4
On the “Hype Machine” Podcast with Sinan Aral, https://guykawasaki.com/dr-sinan-aral/
On the spread of fake and correct news: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e680023bf798b61525c7831/t/5ecd271ee7d73d6dee6e7b7a/1590503213241/the-spread-of-true-and-false-news-online-combined.pdf
Wardle, Claire (16 February 2017): Fake News. It’s complicated. https://medium.com/1st-draft/fake-news-its-complicated-d0f773766c79
European Initiatives against hate speech, https://www.fes.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=61932&token=911f44ea2f89bd28527110c8a6e957e2d87cb2dc, https://cemas.io/en/publications/fragile-democracy/2022-07-27-CeMAS_Policy-Brief_Fragile-Democracy.pdf
EU initiative to counter state-led disinformation, https://euvsdisinfo.eu/
The Psychology of Authoritarian Populism: A Bird’s Eye View June 2018 MiC report, https://www.moreincommon.com/media/5mcjfn4t/yudkin-daniel-2018-the-psychology-of-authoritarian-populism-a-bird-s-eye-view_june2018.pdf
Redecker, E. V. (2020): Ownership’s Shadow: Neoauthoritarianism as Defense of Phantom Possession, In Critical Times (2020) 3 (1): 33–67. https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-8189849
