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Outrage Industrial Complex
The outrage industrial complex (OIC) is a combination of forces including media outlets, social media influencers, political fundraising messaging, and individuals in media, political leadership or advocacy that in the late 20th and early 21st centuries exploited differences of opinion and what was termed a culture of contempt drawn along political and social lines, increasing distrust of institutions and society, to advance their own desires for fame, wealth, higher office, or for geopolitical reasons. The OIC creates and distributes outrage media, digital or print content specifically intended to provoke anger or outrage among its consumers to increase engagement. Makeup The complex includes media outlets, social media influencers, political fundraising messaging, and individuals in media, political leadership or advocacy who call out "outrages", hoping to generate what Richard Thompson Ford, writing for ''The American Interest'', calls a sense of "righteous indignation" and r ...
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Outrage Media
Outrage porn (also called outrage discourse, outrage media and outrage journalism) is any type of media or narrative designed to use outrage to provoke strong emotional reactions for the purpose of expanding audiences or increasing engagement. The term ''outrage porn'' was coined in 2009 by ''The New York Times'' political cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider. Overview ''Outrage porn'' is a term used to explain media that is created specifically to provoke anger or outrage among its consumers as a tool of the outrage industrial complex. It is characterized by insincere rage, umbrage and indignation without personal accountability or commitment. Media outlets are often incentivized to feign or foster outrage as it leads to increased page views, sharing, and comments, which are all lucrative online behaviors. ''Salon'', ''Gawker'', and affiliated websites ''Valleywag'' and ''Jezebel'' have been noted for abusing the tactic. Traditional media outlets, including television news and t ...
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In social psychology and sociology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member. By contrast, an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify. People may for example identify with their peer group, family, community, sports team, political party, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or nation. It has been found that the psychological membership of social groups and categories is associated with a wide variety of phenomena. The terminology was made popular by Henri Tajfel and colleagues beginning in the 1970s during his work in formulating social identity theory. The significance of in-group and out-group categorization was identified using a method called the minimal group paradigm. Tajfel and colleagues found that people can form self-preferencing in-groups within a matter of minutes and that such groups can form even on the basis of completely arbitrary and invented discriminatory characteristics, ...
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Washington Spectator
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Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbury, Vermont. It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. The university has nearly 38,000 students and more than 4,000 faculty members and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The university is nonsectarian, though it retains its historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway–Kenmore and Allston, Massachusetts, Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is locate ...
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WGCU (TV)
WGCU (channel 30) is a PBS member television station in Fort Myers, Florida, United States. Owned by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), it is a sister station to NPR member WGCU-FM (90.1). The two stations share studios on the FGCU campus in Fort Myers and transmitter facilities in unincorporated southern Charlotte County. Public television came to Southwest Florida when channel 30 began broadcasting as WSFP-TV on August 15, 1983. It was founded as a service of the University of South Florida (USF), which had a campus in Fort Myers. The station repeated USF's station in Tampa, WUSF-TV. In 1988, WSFP-TV moved into its first local studio facilities, enabling it to begin producing local programming and qualify for federal grants. USF–Fort Myers was absorbed by Florida Gulf Coast University in stages: WSFP-TV became WGCU on July 1, 1996, when the new university took over operations of both stations—a year before it held its first classes. The Myra Janco Daniels Public ...
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Motive(s) or The Motive(s) may refer to: * Motivation Motivation is an mental state, internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior at a particul ... * Motive (law) Entertainment Film and television * Motives (film), ''Motives'' (film), a 2004 thriller * The Motive (film), ''The Motive'' (film), 2017 * Motive (TV series), ''Motive'' (TV series), a 2013 Canadian TV series * The Motive (TV series), ''The Motive'' (TV series), a 2020 Israeli TV series * "The Motive", a 1958 List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, episode of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' Podcasts and radio * Motive (podcast), ''Motive'' (podcast), true crime podcast by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and WBEZ Music * Motive (album), ''Motive'' (album), a 1990 album by Red Box * Motive (song), "Motive" (song), a 2020 song by Ariana Grande and Doja Cat * T ...
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