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Adoxastic publics: Facebook and the loss of civic strangeness
Quarterly Journal of Speech ( IF 2.313 ) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 , DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2139856
Jonathan S. Carter 1 , Caddie Alford 2
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ABSTRACT

After being criticized for promoting misinformation in the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook announced a “privacy-focused vision of social media.” Purportedly to decrease misinformation on users’ newsfeeds, these technical and rhetorical reforms moved users away from public-facing areas of the site, funneling them into private groups. Significantly, these reforms created groups organized around opinions increasingly disconnected from strangers’ views. Consequently, these changes facilitated publicities that fostered QAnon conspiracies, militia group recruitment, and right-wing violence. To understand this dangerous radicalization, we make explicit that publics are dependent on the opinions—the doxa—that constitute them. In clarifying that publics are rooted in doxa, we reveal how sociotechnical assemblages—particularly private Facebook groups—are creating what we call adoxastic publics, or publics made up of adoxa: asocial and highly sheltered, improbable, and often disreputable opinions. Specifically, we explore how the affordances of Facebook’s infrastructure divorce participants from encountering strange doxa, the heart of publics, instead promoting discursive stagnation and violent orientations towards others. These adoxastic affordances align with and embolden the rhetorical practices of masculine white nationalism and other dangerous ideologies. We conclude by offering the possibility of endoxastic networks as a productive correction to dangerous and anti-democratic adoxastic social media.



中文翻译:

厌烦的公众:Facebook 和公民陌生感的丧失

摘要

在 2016 年美国总统大选中因传播错误信息而受到批评后,Facebook 宣布了“以隐私为中心的社交媒体愿景”。据称,为了减少用户新闻源中的错误信息,这些技术和修辞改革将用户从网站面向公众的区域转移到私人群组中。值得注意的是,这些改革创造了一些团体,这些团体的观点越来越脱离陌生人的观点。因此,这些变化促进了宣传,助长了“匿名者Q”阴谋、民兵组织招募和右翼暴力。为了理解这种危险的激进化,我们明确表示公众依赖于构成他们的观点(doxa)。在澄清公众植根于信念时,我们揭示了社会技术组合——尤其是 Facebook 私人群组——如何创造出我们所谓的“adoxastic 公众”,或由“adoxa”组成的公众:不合群的、高度庇护的、不可能的、常常是声名狼藉的观点。具体来说,我们探讨了 Facebook 基础设施的可供性如何使参与者远离公众的核心信念,而不是促进话语停滞和对他人的暴力倾向。这些令人反感的可供性与男性白人民族主义和其他危险意识形态的修辞实践相一致并更加大胆。最后,我们提供了吸毒网络的可能性,作为对危险和反民主的吸毒社交媒体的有效纠正。以及经常出现的不光彩的观点。具体来说,我们探讨了 Facebook 基础设施的可供性如何使参与者远离公众的核心信念,而不是促进话语停滞和对他人的暴力倾向。这些令人反感的可供性与男性白人民族主义和其他危险意识形态的修辞实践相一致并更加大胆。最后,我们提供了吸毒网络的可能性,作为对危险和反民主的吸毒社交媒体的有效纠正。以及经常出现的不光彩的观点。具体来说,我们探讨了 Facebook 基础设施的可供性如何使参与者远离公众的核心信念,而不是促进话语停滞和对他人的暴力倾向。这些令人反感的可供性与男性白人民族主义和其他危险意识形态的修辞实践相一致并更加大胆。最后,我们提供了吸毒网络的可能性,作为对危险和反民主的吸毒社交媒体的有效纠正。这些令人反感的可供性与男性白人民族主义和其他危险意识形态的修辞实践相一致并更加大胆。最后,我们提供了吸毒网络的可能性,作为对危险和反民主的吸毒社交媒体的有效纠正。这些令人反感的可供性与男性白人民族主义和其他危险意识形态的修辞实践相一致并更加大胆。最后,我们提供了吸毒网络的可能性,作为对危险和反民主的吸毒社交媒体的有效纠正。

更新日期:2022-11-23
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