Hello. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guoons the podcast with two academics listen to

content from gurus across the online world and we try to understand what they're talking about.

And in this special interview slash chatette episode we have someone here to help us

understand some of the reasons why gurus are so appealing so welcome

T Newin. Hello hello. Okay so T is a professor in philosophy at the University of

Utah and he's that's a very interesting work on how the online

infosphere affects people's thinking including the phenomenon of outrage porn which

he can tell us about as well as epistemic bubbles and echo chambers and other

interesting things so it's great to have you on to thank you very much So to get us rolling, we might start off with briefly with your stuff on outrage point because

on DTG we're really interested in essentially fake things and

masquerading is the real thing right well explain. So yeah, so outrage point is kind of a similar thing.

So maybe tell us a quick bit about that.

Okay, so this paper and I will be honest the paper started

as a drunk Facebook conversation on someone else's thread between me and Becca Williams who turned into my co-author for this.

And I was just like, two in the morning. I was like, you know what no one's given a good definition of food porn?

Because we talk about it all the time.

It's like defined stuff.

Of course, it's like this huge amount of work

on like sexual pornography,

but there's just new use, right?

And I think we all know it.

Food porn, poverty porn, ruined porn, like closet porn. My wife says to calm herself

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