Click-hate: How the online rage machine took over society

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Social media fuels many emotions, especially anger. And if you’ve followed UK politics for any length of time, you’ll be used to that feeling. Author of Outrage Machine, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, says tech companies know this and have tailored their algorithms to maximise the amount we consume. But how does this translate to real life? Does it alter the way we vote? And does it damage democracy? He joins Hannah Fearn in The Bunker. Book: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/tobias-rose-stockwell/outrage-machine/9780349427386/ “We have a tremendous propensity to look to others when we’re trying to figure out what to feel.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell. “Social media does a really good job of serving us things that make us angry.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell. “Social media is not working with different materials… it’s just gotten better at extracting our attention.” – Tobias Rose-Stockwell. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Hannah Fearn Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0	Hello and welcome to the bunker. I'm Hannah Fern. Listeners, if I was to ask you how much time you spend on Twitter today,
1:11.0	would you be embarrassed to tell me the truth? Was it one hour of
1:14.1	doom scrolling? Three hours? Five? Maybe that's just me. Of course social media is
1:20.0	addictive. That much is very obvious, but there's more to it than that. It hooks us in because
1:24.4	it ignites our most basic emotions and when it comes to politics that means anger. The
1:29.6	writer and researcher Tobias Rose Stockwell has been tracking the link between political
1:33.6	rage and our global social media habit and his findings form the basis of a new book.
1:38.9	Outrage Machine, How Tech Amplifies discontent and disrupts democracy and what we can do about it.
1:44.0	And he joins me now, hi Tobias.
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