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Cambridge Analytica and the trump campagin - Coggle Diagram
Cambridge Analytica and the trump campagin
AOK
History
Human Sciences
Evidence - Psychology : Acculturation + enculturation , and Schemas
Evidence : Fascism - analyzing Mussolini and elections in Italy
Parallel between violence and data mining/manipulation
Evidence : SCL group
Knowledge Concepts
Absolutism
Absolutism is represented in CA and trump campaign as we are going back in time with politics. Is it really about the people ?
Authority
Authorities control how we perceive things subsequently controlling our decision making and idea of free will
Bias
Authorities cultivating societal biases
Reliability
Are the thing we perceive online really reliable ?
WOK
Language
The way information is shared
Sense Perception
Manipulating individuals perspectives
Are we in control of what we see and hear?
Claim
: Data mining and psychological manipulation is restricting individuals access to free will and dismantling democracy
Ethics of care
Epicruienism
Meta Ethics
Contractualism- pursue own interests only in ways that are justifiable to others who have their own interests
Counterclaim
: Data Analysis on mass populations should be utilized as it is a successful campaigning technique which allows voters to ultimaltery make their own decision
Rule utilitarianism
Hedonism
Contractarianism- seeks to maximise own interests
Perspectives
Voters/Citizens
Invasion of privacy w/o consent
Manipulation
No free will, decisions are being made based on influences no opinions
Dehumanizing
Political Parties
Political strategists and data scientist are just trying to do their job and outwit their compeition
Maximise own interests
Allude to lance armstrong concept : Everyone else was doping so I did also ; only way to make competition fair
CA executives said the same thing - " everyone is doing this we just made an example out of
Just because other people are doing it doesn't necessarily make it acceptable ...?
Based on my research, every campaign has used data analytics and some from of technological and psychological manipulation- that's the foundation of campaigns ; However, Cambridge Analytica transgressed the level of acceptability by corrupting democracy and free will.