{"id":2183,"date":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/safety-in-numbers-understanding-the-popularity-of-the-internets-alternative-light\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"safety-in-numbers-understanding-the-popularity-of-the-internets-alternative-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2017\/01\/12\/safety-in-numbers-understanding-the-popularity-of-the-internets-alternative-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety in numbers: Understanding the popularity of the internet\u2019s, \u2018Alternative Light\u2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alternative light in this context, is specifically that of, \u2018Anti-Social Justice\u2019 YouTube channels. <\/p>\n<p>In my project I set out to understand three main things:<\/p>\n<p>How these anonymous, internet based, political movements come about. About other real-world movements such as Occupy wall street<br \/>\nIs there any Philosophical foundation, or key figures, in founding this movement? (I define it as a movement due to its large growth both in viewership, and online political presence). And how does this compare to the foundations of other more extreme movements.<br \/>\nIn the case where there is no foundation of these kinds, how does the world view remain so homogenous, and are there any issues in the foundation of everyone\u2019s belief system?<\/p>\n<p>Along the way I employed primarily the Philosophy of Nick Land, as he is most heavily associated with the movement, and helped in highlighting the significance of analyzing the alt-light specifically. I mapped the progression of these channels from their atheistic, anti-creationist origins, and using the philosophy\u2019s, including that of Land and Nietzsche, showed the significance of this genesis, in the progression of the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Harry Becton, 2017, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,22,128],"tags":[280,119,29],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-251","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-land","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}