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oboreads's review
1.0
Poorly executed attempt at calling into action a more global, and networked society. I read with great precision the first half of the book, but then the second half was skimmed, especially since the conclusion had all the main points one needed to get from the book. Things I did not find amusing about this author :
1) he just assumes that being more aware of international affairs is a positive thing and should be some thing we all default to, but as a social scientist I am forced to ask WHY????? you can't just say it is important and necessary without giving the reader any reasoning
2) it was a plain bullet point list of "oh I did this", "look at my work in Cambridge", "guess what I talked to this scholar on Skype and this is what he said", "at MIT my fellow scholars are researching this stuff" ..... there was no concise argument and he kept jumping around from one fact to the next
3) repeating arguments of confirmation bias and the fact that we all create self-tailored social media and news outlet habits is REDUNDANT... I think by now we all know that we do this online and avoid seeing individuals opinions and experiences that differ from ourselves. Please be more creative and either explain the significance of this or move on
4) promoting your own website *clap clap clap* are you proud of yourself?
1) he just assumes that being more aware of international affairs is a positive thing and should be some thing we all default to, but as a social scientist I am forced to ask WHY????? you can't just say it is important and necessary without giving the reader any reasoning
2) it was a plain bullet point list of "oh I did this", "look at my work in Cambridge", "guess what I talked to this scholar on Skype and this is what he said", "at MIT my fellow scholars are researching this stuff" ..... there was no concise argument and he kept jumping around from one fact to the next
3) repeating arguments of confirmation bias and the fact that we all create self-tailored social media and news outlet habits is REDUNDANT... I think by now we all know that we do this online and avoid seeing individuals opinions and experiences that differ from ourselves. Please be more creative and either explain the significance of this or move on
4) promoting your own website *clap clap clap* are you proud of yourself?
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