Facebooks Mind Experiments: Just Media As Usual - TopicsExpress



          

Facebooks Mind Experiments: Just Media As Usual ift.tt/1jmA9zk Yes, furor erupted over Facebook’s massive psychological experiment to control user emotions by changing the configuration of posts. How naive are we, really? Of course Facebook wants to control your thoughts — that’s the whole point of media. Emotional manipulation in the media is nothing new. That’s why we have Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps Facebook’s experiment was more disturbing because of its scale, and the fact that it failed to alert or gain the consent of its users. But anybody thinking that the trend of media companies using real time user data to control reactions of its audience is something new is mistaken. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job ift.tt/1jmA9iW
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:35:43 +0000

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