This book chapter has a very insightful observation of the affective public and their power of promoting social or political movements, and there were many positive examples discussed. I'm wondering if there are any examples of misuse of the affective public and how to prevent that from happening? For example, there is some fake news that was designed to inflame the public and it turned out that people were blaming the wrong person, or criminals made up stories to get sympathy from the public and get money from donations or things like that.
This book chapter has a very insightful observation of the affective public and their power of promoting social or political movements, and there were many positive examples discussed. I'm wondering if there are any examples of misuse of the affective public and how to prevent that from happening? For example, there is some fake news that was designed to inflame the public and it turned out that people were blaming the wrong person, or criminals made up stories to get sympathy from the public and get money from donations or things like that.