The Spectacular Achievements of Media Control, part1a
This is part 1 of a "3-part" article that "undertook a course of intellectual self-defense" in magnifying a speech by Noam Chomsky known as "Media Control". ...
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PAUL MURRAYS return to Rangers was delivered in emphatic fashion.
The former director railed against Craig Whyte when they shared a boardroom only to be booted out by the disgraced former owner.
But he is back at the club he has always supported and has been handed the interim chairman role by King.
Here in the post-victory press conference he speaks of his delight and relief of finally winning control after a four-year-long fight with the men who have tarnished the name of his beloved team.
Murray outlines his vision for the club but admits he, King and his fellow new directors face a fight to get Rangers back to where they feel it belongs.
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Rocker John Mayer struggles to control his use of social media because he considers himself a "recovering ego addict".
The Your Body Is a Wonderland singer admits he let his behaviour get out of control early on in his career because he used to feed off all of the praise and adoration he received from fans online, but it wasn't until his candid 2010 interview with Playboy magazine, in which he dished on all of his celebrity ex-girlfriends and famously described Jessica Simpson as "sexual napalm", that he realised he needed to take a step back from the limelight.
He quit Twitter and moved from Los Angeles to Montana, where he has since refocused his attention on his music, and Mayer is adamant he is nothing like the man he once was.
Discussing the moment he realised he had hit rock bottom, he tells U.S. newsman Ronan Farrow, "I went, 'All right, dude, you did a couple interviews where you were out of touch and you were being a ham, and you were basically break dancing into a nitroglycerin plant, right?'"
Mayer, who is reportedly dating Katy Perry, claims he was never the playboy he was portrayed to be in the press, but he played up his wild behaviour to fit the part - because he thought that's what fans wanted to see.
Asked if he considers himself a womaniser, he replies, "No. Absolutely not. But when you're crafty and you're clever and you go, 'Well, I'm just going to be as strange as they think I am,' then you lose (yourself). Number one: You're not playing music anymore. Number two: You're not feeling anything honestly. And number three: You're not saying anything honestly."
He returned to Twitter last year (14), but Mayer admits he has to remind himself every day not to get too drawn in to social media.
He says, "I'm a recovered ego addict and the only way that I can be sure that I don't relapse is to admit that I constantly have this ego addiction every day. So I do the Grammys and then I go home, because if I stay I get high again (on the approval).
"You've already looked through Twitter, everyone says it's great, and then you get low again because you can't stop looking, so I'm a recovered ego addict."
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Supporters of Islamic State could control as many as 90,000 Twitter accounts worldwide, a new study suggests.
The jihadist group is able to "exert an outsized impact on how the world perceives it" because of its use of social media and number of online followers, according to the Washington-based Brookings Institute report.
It recommends governments and social media companies work together to find new ways to tackle the problem of accounts supporting the Islamists, who have posted gruesome pictures and videos purporting to be of executions in Iraq and Syria online, as well as propaganda rhetoric.
It argues the problem also applies to other social networks and extremist groups such as far-right racist organisations.
The report, by Brookings academic JM Berger and technologist Jonathon Morgan, says: "While we do not believe that any mainstream social media platform wishes to see its services used to further acts of horrific violence, we also suspect some would rather not be bothered with the challenge of crafting a broad and coherent response to the issue.
"While we can sympathise with the challenges and dilemmas such a response would entail, it is clear that social media companies do feel an obligation to respond to some social standards and illegal uses of their services.
"Extremism, while raising thornier issues, merits attention, especially when faced with a rising challenge of violent groups who manipulate platforms to reap the rewards of spreading images of their cruelty."
The study of IS-linked accounts between September and December estimated there were between 46,000 and 70,000 IS-supporting Twitter accounts. The researchers believe the true figure was towards the lower end of this scale but setting an absolute maximum at 90,000.
Only a small number of the accounts were able to have their locations identified, as most had this function switched off. But of those that could be located, the vast majority were in the Middle East and North Africa. Other were found in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Australia, but these numbers were in single figures, the report found.
They noted that platforms including Facebook and YouTube have already introduced changes aimed at tackling extremist material.
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Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication Lecture by Bilge Yesil
February 12, 2015, "Bypassing or Manipulating Democracy: Media Control and Resistance in China, Russia, and Turkey." Guest lecture by Bilge Yesil, Marina Rep...
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