I’m not a fan of Ghostbusters or Star Wars. I don’t enjoy their movies. Did you feel your blood and mind automatically react to the opinion without thinking? Did I trigger your defense mechanisms to defend these movies and block out your other mental processes from the raw emotion I brought out of you from this statement? Using these emotional trips is the first step in getting your attention to a story or rumor. It is a commonly used practice in advertising and politics. Rumors carry numerous amount of ways to interpret them. Even our textbook has countless options of speculation. Some speculate that it is a drive to find information according to Jesse Signal’s “How to Fight a Rumor.” Some theorize that it comes from building up unrelated …show more content…
In Jesse Singal’s “How to Fight A Rumor,” He brings up an excellent point with this passage, “We’re particularly likely to spread negative rumors about “high-status” individuals, whether they’re our bosses, professors, or celebrities.” The Dunning-Kruger effect explains why our ‘above average’ mentality will convince us to how the higher ups should exemplify their jobs or lives. I’m sure President Trump inspired opinions about how to address events differently. However, this is taken in another direction. Rather than it being interpreted compared to the previous examples, it governs itself on fear and anxiety according to Daniel Goleman’s “Anatomy of A Rumor: It Flies on Fear.” Dr. Ralph Rosnow on this article expands on this in saying, “A rumor is a kind of hypothesis, a speculation that helps people construct sense of a chaotic reality or gives them a small sense of control in a threatening world.” In light of this a rumor starts to become clear. For example, if a boss or coworker in a workplace starts to generate situations difficult for you, you need to talk about the possibilities with your family and friends to confront them. From this a sense of security is developed from getting additional opinions and sharing your feelings. In comparison, rumors act in the same light. We need to structure these uncertain feelings so that we can gain a grasp on what is happening with our surroundings. It’s a natural human defense
Ellis and Fine (2010) write that rumors tend to reveal what features are important in society, but they are often pulled in every direction due to varying religious and ethnic systems that create subcultures that rarely mingle. When this fact is taken together with Fine and Ellis’s previous comment
He was a very well-known person and many important people knew him, not as a friend but as an acquaintances. “He was, for example, gregarious and intensely social… was a fisherman and a hunter, a card player and a theater-lover, a frequenter of pubs and a successful businessman” (pg 56) Due to his social connections, his friends and acquaintances trusted him and were willing to spread the rumour onwards to their friends, thus creating a chain reaction; a ‘virus’. This law was also seen in Inception. In that case, a character named Yusuf who is a multi-billionaire is on a quest to see one of his competitor’s crash and making his company the most powerful.
Famous people have more rumors spread throughout society and the internet about them than ordinary people. The most rumored target is presidential candidates. “The Anatomy of a Smear Campaign” by Richard H. Davis follows John McCain’s campaign for president in the 2000 primary election. Another article regarding John McCain and the 2000 primary election is “How to Fight A Rumor” by Jesse Signal which entails the best way to fight against rumors in the public spotlight. In “How to Fight A Rumor,” the best way to fight a rumor was to not fight against it verbally in case one says the wrong thing, but to immediately create a factual platform to show the truth.
This sentence tells us that the gossipers do not know anything
People’s memories are greatly affected by preconceptions and the emotions that come with them. When one’s memories are challenged the response is that they must be right, and everyone else must be wrong. Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson shows this example when during his show “Cosmos” where he inaccurately uses a quote from two different speeches of President George Bush’s to express a science of how stars were named. The quote was implying prejudice tendencies in Mr. Bush right after 9/11, and when Dr. Tyson was confronted of his misinterpretation his overconfidence of his memories he instantly configured that the confronters were incorrect. After evidence proved of his misconception, he admitted to his mistake and publicly apologized.
This explains why rumor statements are generally considered important by rumor discussants” (244). People become more willing to accept rumors when they simplify a situation that they consider threatening; therefore, rumors are equally likely to be believed by anyone that considers a rumor to be an acceptable explanation to a threatening
It’s because it isn’t true. It is just a lie that’s been embellished and passed around. To the people who share it, it may seem like another juicy tidbit, but to the person who is the subject of gossiping, it’s like the end of the world. It makes them insecure and secluded. For Goodwife Cruff, gossip was her life.
In times like these people’s emotions and rumors spread like wildfire and before you know it, it’s consumed everything and
Also, sometimes people in charge of politics spread some false news about those who are against them to achieve their aspiration. In real life, people
Starting as a secret, later becoming evidence and finally being used as a
Do rumors ever seem to ruin everything? That’s how most people feel when dealing with the Red Scare. Alger Hiss, who was a high-ranking official, lies and gives them fake documents. USHistory.org mentions, “The man who had given him the documents, he said, was Alger Hiss, who had been a high-ranking official in the State Department” (USHistory.org). An editor of Times magazine claims that he gave the Soviet Union classified information.
Intro Authors Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen quote psychologist Nicholas DiFonzo, in “Have You Heard This? The Latest on Rumor,” as asking, “What is it about being human that sets the stage for rumor activity?” (478). Rumors and gossip are usually designed to hurt others. Since rumors hurt or destroy other people’s lives and take away their happiness, then why do people like to spread them? Some of the people who spread rumors often feel better about themselves, and they enjoy seeing others suffer.
These feelings of danger can stem from feelings of unpredictability and
The spread of false information or “fake news” in today’s society is creating mobs of people with uninformed or misguided rage that causes them to abandon rational thinking. For example the aforementioned awful repercussions of pizzagate came to a head when It was reported that “the Washington DC pizzeria Comet Ping Pong fell victim to fake news in 2016 when false internet stories claimed the restaurant was operating a child sex ring. Responding to the story an armed vigilante entered the pizzeria and began firing a rifle”(Currie 6). It has clear that this is a problem that can affect anyone from big name politicians to small time pizza places.
Some info might not be true. This happened on Twitter when 64% of people that got news on this site later found out that it wasn’t true. Since information can also be spread out so fast, these false facts can also be sent to millions of other viewers. So you heard about some Trump new, huh? Maybe don’t go for it on the social