Let us point out one thing. The boys at Covington Catholic High School can certainly be the right disgusting, just as the u.s. urinvånaren they were pitted against in the latest american viral superkontroversen. They all can certainly also be wonderful and benevolent people. They are a little of each, but which part we have seen so far is due to their persons suddenly been weighed down with the importance of symbolism. In the traditional media, sure, but to a beginning of social media. Of us. Us people, who themselves are hardly without blemish.
To live is to be the just one publication away from a karaktärssjälvmord. Every day, most of us something that, recorded, cut and posted, could lead to our demise. The actions of other people is, of course, our own most attractive mirrors.
ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”, have anyone – not Eleanor Roosevelt said, and a less förnumstig and arrogant, more accurate version would be that we rarely discuss ideas, sometimes discussing the events, and usually, people. Especially when people turn into symbols, as they tend to do when their actions are in the centre of a public debate.
the Human conversation about each other used to be fluent, upplösligt and perishable, over beer or coffee or whatever we want for a night of bullshit. There we could discuss his or her blunder, or mishap, most of the time without to scrape up an ugly scar in the collective consciousness the image of the person in question. The problem is that we do not understand most of what is written on social media is a part of the same conversation, and therefore – with the outdated expectation that the written word should be of a higher quality than the spoken – puts greater emphasis on it. It creates an environment where the impact of the with the misfortune to be a symbol becomes so much greater. The effect is comparable with that of the propaganda.
a of the bitterest opinionsbildarsajterna out there a man. An official of the commission, the authority that proposes or lowering the notified television and radio shows, hung out with the name and the picture to like the green Party and the blog is Not a racist, but on Facebook. Any day thereafter updated the site with new data: the official had also once been convicted for drug use and had ”according to one source,” with football hooligans. The official has no positions of trust, and of the results so far are not a damn – I repeat: not the slightest thing to suggest that he would not be competent enough to manage their work. He, like all the others, has lived a life. In such there is dirt in the corners. It’s a glass house no one decent wants to start throwing stones in the – if you don’t happen to have a political agenda with their rock-throwing.
When the Swedish journalism professionaliserades went there partly to understand the individual human vulnerability in the face of the group, and respond to it with an ethical framework. Today, the profession is largely about weighing people’s power and acts against their integrity, to determine who shall remain anonymous, and who did not deserve it. Propagandists are completely unconcerned by such things, because scapegoats are their favorite items. It is nothing new.
What is new is that we, too, in our daily conversations can find and canonize similar scapegoats, when our bullshit posted on social media. People who accidentally end up in the headlamp are reduced to moments in their lives, moments which, in turn, be reduced to the argument.
individual documents is that a warped card game, where we play out lågvattenmärken against each other. In the long run is such a game, no winner. For ordinary people, is not your argument. The boys at Covington Catholic, urinvånaren they were pitted against and the official at the granskningsverket is not your argument. They are urkarvade moment from the lived life, and those of you with. They just have not become viral yet.
They hear at home where they can be erased and forgotten, and the responsibility for either maintaining them there, teaching us to forget them even when we have taken part of them on social media or simply ignore them when they whirl past on the internet is our. Journalistic respect for privacy used to be a professional concern of journalists. It is time that it becomes general knowledge.
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