What Bad Bunny and Alex Pretti Teach us About American Culture
Table of Contents Bad Bunny: A Tale of Reactionary Backlash Symbolism in the Performance Woke Spotting Brain Rot & Patterned Responses Vulgarity and Hypocrisy Grievance, Paranoia, Persecution, and Participatory Propaganda More on Patterned Responses Alex Pretti and the Construction of Evidence From Evidence to Classification A Bayesian Model of the Pretti Dispute From Disagreement to Epistemic Capture From Frames to Causal Scripts Self-Sealing Discourse and Echo Chambers Luhmann: Media Selectors Adapting Luhmann to Computational Propaganda Elizabeth Dubois: Influencers and Elections Codes & Success Criteria Connecting to Broader Propaganda Concepts What does all of this mean? References There is something deeply off putting about our relationship with media. People treat their preferred media as infallible golems, putting forth about zero brain power towards critical analysis, while being hyper distrustful towards anything that does not corroborate the same messages. It just ...