165: Outrage Machine (w/Tobias Rose-Stockwell)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a media researcher, writer, designer, and author of the new book, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It. The book deals with tough questions about who we are as individuals and a society, reminding us that we all help shape our surroundings by what we pay attention to, how we understand and process the information we ingest, and perhaps most importantly, what we do with it. Tobias joins Derek for an in-depth conversation about the history of news and the future of media literacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
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0:30.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Conspirituality where we investigate the intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults,
0:49.0	pseudoscience and authoritarian extremism.
0:52.0	I'm Derek Barris, piloting solo this week to feature an interview with media researcher Tobias Rose Stockwell.
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1:22.0	This is Conspirituality 165, outrage machine with Tobias Rose Stockwell.
1:34.0	From the very first instances of what we've come to call news,
1:39.0	dating back some seven centuries ago in Europe,
1:42.0	news and monetizing that information were inseparable.
1:48.0	Well, before the printing press, merchants had an extensive network of informant stationed in faraway outposts
1:55.0	in order to discover what they were getting into or avoiding.
2:00.0	Over time, some intrepid entrepreneurs realized they could curate that information coming in and going out and sell it to those merchants,
2:09.0	and so they centralized the power of what was formally gossiped into reliable sourcing of information.
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