{"id":16,"date":"2018-06-20T00:07:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/ray\/?p=16"},"modified":"2018-06-20T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:07:49","slug":"our-online-behavior-is-a-design-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/our-online-behavior-is-a-design-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Online Behavior is a Design Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we\u2019re talking about trolls, serial harassers, racists or purveyors of propaganda, it seems like the online behavior of the worst of us has leached out the civil discourse of the best of us. The vitriol that accompanied the 2016 US election in particular has raised painful questions. Does Facebook\u2019s fake news problem mean we don\u2019t care about truth anymore? Does the current vogue for digital dogpiling mean we\u2019ve forgotten how to disagree without being disagreeable? Perhaps we\u2019re all awful people deep down, and our tweets, posts, and comments are simply a clearer window into our dark souls.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps putting an anonymous bullhorn into everyone\u2019s hands and wrapping us in custom-built echo chambers makes us more likely to be terrible. Besides the genuine neo-Nazis and misogynists exercising the right to amplify their voices, many others are simply drunk on the power to provoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether we\u2019re talking about trolls, serial harassers, racists or purveyors of propaganda, it seems like the online behavior of the worst of us has leached out the civil discourse of the best of us. The vitriol that accompanied the 2016 US election in particular has raised painful questions. Does Facebook\u2019s fake news problem mean we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,8,6],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status","tag-design","tag-human","tag-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.wpmagg.com\/rayy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}