Weaponizing The Haters: The Final Jedi Too The Strategic Politicization Of Popular Civilisation Through Social Media Manipulation.

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North Macedonian Content Farmers? Could you lot find a to a greater extent than awkward locution?*

From The Hollywood Reporter, Oct 1:

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified yesteryear Russian Trolls, Study Finds

An academic newspaper finds that one-half of criticism aimed at manager Rian Johnson was politically motivated.

Did Star Wars: The Last Jedi destroy the franchise too permanently rupture the fandom every bit its critics (melodramatically) convey defendant it of doing? According to a novel academic newspaper yesteryear researcher Morten Bay, the answer is clearly no.

The paper, titled "Weaponizing the Haters: The Last Jedi and the Strategic Politicization of Pop Culture Through Social Media Manipulation," examines the online response to 2017's Last Jedi, a moving painting that has come upwardly to live considered controversial with the larger fanbase of the franchise.

Bay suggests that reputation may non live earned, too instead "finds show of deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised every bit fan arguments," every bit he writes inwards the paper's abstract. He continues, "The probable objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to too farther propagating a narrative of widespread discord too dysfunction inwards American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic finish for the the U.S.A. alt-right movement, too every bit the Russian Federation."

The newspaper analyzes inwards depth the negative online reaction, which is separate into 3 unlike camps: those with a political agenda, trolls too what Bay calls "real fantagonists," which he defines every bit genuine Star Wars fans disappointed inwards the movie. His findings are fascinating; "Overall, 50.9% of those tweeting negatively [about the movie] was probable politically motivated or non fifty-fifty human," he writes, noting that alone 21.9% of tweets analyzed virtually the moving painting had been negative inwards the starting fourth dimension place.

"A reveal of these users look to live Russian trolls," Bay writes of the negative tweets.

Moreover, he suggests, complaints virtually Lucasfilm's reported politicization of the franchise yesteryear many of the disaffected fans enjoin to a greater extent than virtually the fans than it does Disney or Lucasfilm's handling of it. "[S]ince the political too ethical positions presented inwards the novel films are consistent with older films, it is to a greater extent than probable that the polarization of the Trump era has politicized the fans," Bay argues. "The divisive political discourse of the study menses too the months leading upwardly to it, has probable primed these fans with a item type of political messaging that is inwards straight conflict with the values presented inwards The Last Jedi."...MORE

*WSJ, June 17: 
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The Atlantic, Oct. 1
Macedonia’s Name Change Wins—But Its Opponents Do Too

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