{"id":72471,"date":"2018-07-26T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=72471"},"modified":"2018-07-26T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:37:43","slug":"creepy-videos-show-routines-running-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2018\/07\/26\/creepy-videos-show-routines-running-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Videos Show Routines Running Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People talk. Their interactions become habits, habits become routines, and routines become rules. Sociologists call this emergent behavior, and sometimes it happens so slowly we don&#8217;t even notice it until we look back and think &#8220;where did that come from?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Emergent behavior can be quirky and fun (think of Taco Friday at the office or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xBbOAVSBvpE\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">on Wednesdays we wear pink<\/a>&#8220;), but sometimes it can also be far more serious or more troubling.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is that new technology makes these interactions happen much faster, on a much larger scale, and with less editing\u2014often with odd results. Check out this TED talk\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-1\">The Nightmare Videos of Children&#8217;s YouTube<\/a>\u2014 for a good illustration of the dark side of emergent behavior when algorithms accelerate and exploit social interactions online.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9EKV2nSU8w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evan-stewart.com\/\">Evan Stewart<\/a> is an assistant professor of sociology at University of Massachusetts Boston. You can follow his work at <a href=\"https:\/\/evan-stewart.com\">his website<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/evanstewart.bsky.social\">BlueSky<\/a>.<\/i>  <\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People talk. Their interactions become habits, habits become routines, and routines become rules. Sociologists call this emergent behavior, and sometimes it happens so slowly we don&#8217;t even notice it until we look back and think &#8220;where did that come from?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Emergent behavior can be quirky and fun (think of Taco Friday at the office or &#8220;on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":72480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,15,290,140,23722,66],"class_list":["post-72471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-culture","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-internet","tag-social-construction-symbolic-interaction","tag-theory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2018\/07\/youtube-e1532637159297.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72481,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72471\/revisions\/72481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}