Chapter
The Problem with Reductionist Social Media
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Social media often reduces complex issues to one-sentence statements which can be emotionally charged and lead people to take sides without understanding the full scope of a topic. The focus of the pod should be to provide multiple points of view and context for listeners to make informed decisions.
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The reductionist thinking in social media has been a significant problem for the past few years.
00:55 - 05:37 (04:41)
Social Media
Summary
The reductionist thinking in social media has been a significant problem for the past few years. The Twitter era has encouraged us to reduce complex topics to a single argumentative statement, and it's become very easy to use an emotional point to sway people on one side of the argument to go against the other side.