Outrage Overload

A Connors Institute podcast

Tag: socialmediaimpact

Outrage 013 – How moral misinformation uses emotion to generate outrage – Ritsaart Reimann

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May 12, 2023

David Beckemeyer

BridgeTheDivide, ConstructiveDialogue, EmpathyInPolitics, FactChecking, FreeSpeech, InformationOverload, MediaRegulation, politicalpolarization, PublicDiscourse, socialmediaimpact

There’s been a drum beat, suggesting that social media and information silos, echo chambers, are a driving force behind our divisiveness and polarization. New research suggests this may be overstated. It may have more to do with the very nature of how we come to know or believe things in the political realm. In this…
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Outrage 006 – How virality results in moral panics – Kurt Gray

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February 6, 2023

David Beckemeyer

ethics, morality, moralpanic, outrage, psychology, research, science, socialmedia, socialmediaimpact, socialmediapsychology, virality

Moral panics are not uncommon. Back in the 1980’s there was a moral panic over the game Dungeons and Dragons. Some parents believed D&D was the work of the devil, a gateway to joining a Satanic cult. It wasn’t “but this didn’t stop people from worrying about it,” says my guest on this episode, Dr.…
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Outrage Overload is a podcast about the outrage industry, my journey to discover what it is, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.

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