Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction

Postoutenko K (2022)
In: The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information. Schroeder MJ, Burgin M (Eds); Proceedings, 81(1). Basel Switzerland: MDPI: 111.

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Schroeder, Marcin J.; Burgin, Mark
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This presentation sketches out three scenarios of information suppression in social environments ravaged by pervasive feelings of insecurity and looming breakup. While containment (common in totalitarian regimes) strives to decrease the amount of information in the system by encouraging redundancy and semantic inflation, escape (typical for populist milieus) results in informational nihilism (information = noise). Inversely, tolerance (common for conspiracy adepts) interprets all signs—and even non-signs—as meaningful cues reinforcing pre-existing beliefs (noise = information). It is argued that these attempts at uncertainty reduction typically lead to pathological states, failing to reduce the overall amount of information within the systems in question.
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Titel des Konferenzbandes
The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information
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Proceedings
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81
Ausgabe
1
Seite(n)
111
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2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI 2021)
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online
Konferenzdatum
2021-09-12 – 2021-09-19
ISSN
2504-3900
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2964189

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Postoutenko K. Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction. In: Schroeder MJ, Burgin M, eds. The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information. Proceedings. Vol 81. Basel Switzerland: MDPI; 2022: 111.
Postoutenko, K. (2022). Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction. In M. J. Schroeder & M. Burgin (Eds.), Proceedings: Vol. 81. The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (p. 111). Basel Switzerland: MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022081111
Postoutenko, Kirill. 2022. “Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction”. In The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information, ed. Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin, 81:111. Proceedings. Basel Switzerland: MDPI.
Postoutenko, K. (2022). “Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction” in The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information, Schroeder, M. J., and Burgin, M. eds. Proceedings, vol. 81, (Basel Switzerland: MDPI), 111.
Postoutenko, K., 2022. Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction. In M. J. Schroeder & M. Burgin, eds. The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information. Proceedings. no.81 Basel Switzerland: MDPI, pp. 111.
K. Postoutenko, “Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction”, The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information, M.J. Schroeder and M. Burgin, eds., Proceedings, vol. 81, Basel Switzerland: MDPI, 2022, pp.111.
Postoutenko, K.: Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction. In: Schroeder, M.J. and Burgin, M. (eds.) The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information. Proceedings. 81, p. 111. MDPI, Basel Switzerland (2022).
Postoutenko, Kirill. “Flattery, Fake News and Conspiracy: Three Scenarios of Pathological Complexity Reduction”. The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information. Ed. Marcin J. Schroeder and Mark Burgin. Basel Switzerland: MDPI, 2022.Vol. 81. Proceedings. 111.
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