(Personally, I don’t buy it. I think persuasion technology—think PowerPoint et al., but also possibly new varieties of e.g. “viral” political advertising and propaganda, powered by the Internet and social media—has the potential to be rather more dangerous than BuzzFeed-style clickbait content. If only becausr clickbait is still optimizing for curiosity and intellectual engagement, if maybe in a slightly unconventional way compared to, e.g. 1960s sci-fi.)
Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence? You Won’t BELIEVE What Comes Next!
(Personally, I don’t buy it. I think persuasion technology—think PowerPoint et al., but also possibly new varieties of e.g. “viral” political advertising and propaganda, powered by the Internet and social media—has the potential to be rather more dangerous than BuzzFeed-style clickbait content. If only becausr clickbait is still optimizing for curiosity and intellectual engagement, if maybe in a slightly unconventional way compared to, e.g. 1960s sci-fi.)