danah boyd on the Dangers of Weaponized Critical Thinking

Entertainingly, there was a minute when people argued that the democratization of access to media would *automatically* result in a space for rational discourse, where people would be persuaded by the best arguments and we would eventually all grow together toward the good. It turns out, of course, we live in a world where corrective information often hardens one’s position.

At SXSWedu, danah boyd summarized a lot of her research into the ways in which social media can often turn the habits of...