Episode 11: Outrage Culture: How Anger Keeps Us Engaged Online

Episode 11 of the Think It Through: the Clearer Thinking Podcast podcast, hosted by April Hebert, titled "Episode 11: Outrage Culture: How Anger Keeps Us Engaged Online" was published on February 2, 2021 and runs 19 minutes.

February 2, 2021 ·19m · Think It Through: the Clearer Thinking Podcast

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Send a text April begins Season 2 by talking about why we seem to be so angry these days, and what we can do to take it down a notch. Episode 11 Show Notes Here's Nancy Rommelmann's op-ed describing the fallout from the online outrage against her and her husband: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rommelmann-me-too-portland-20190222-story.html Harvard's Elizabeth Bartolet writes about the things that trouble her about the MeToo movement: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/1/...

Episode Description

April begins Season 2 by talking about why we seem to be so angry these days, and what we can do to take it down a notch.

Episode 11 Show Notes

Here's Nancy Rommelmann's op-ed describing the fallout from the online outrage against her and her husband: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rommelmann-me-too-portland-20190222-story.html

Harvard's Elizabeth Bartolet writes about the things that trouble her about the MeToo movement: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/1/16/bartholet-metoo-excesses/

An NPR story about outrage with Steve Inskeep and Shankar Vedantam: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768489375/how-outrage-is-hijacking-our-culture-and-our-minds

Some of the short and long-term effects of anger can be found here: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/anger-how-it-affects-people#:~:text=The%20long%2Dterm%20physical%20effects,learning%20relaxation%20techniques%20and%20counselling

Richard Ford's excellent Stanford blog post about what he calls the "outrage-industrial complex":
https://law.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/the-outrage-industrial-complex/

Psychology Today author Rob Henderson writes about the social underpinnings of outrage: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/after-service/201906/moral-outrage-why-we-attack-each-other

Victoria Spring's article in Scientific American about the positive and negative aspects of outrage: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-outrage-be-a-good-thing/

Some great ideas from journalist Zaid Jalani on how to de-escalate your social media outrage: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_avoid_the_social_media_outrage_trap

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