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Renee DiResta's book recommendations
Key facts
- Renee DiResta has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of October 16, 2024.
- Renee DiResta has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of October 16, 2024.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of October 16, 2024.
- The 3 books Renee DiResta has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 16, 2024: How Behavior Spreads, Manufacturing consent and On Bullshit.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Renee DiResta aired on October 16, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Renee DiResta appears on, in one place, not just one.
Renée DiResta is an American professor, writer, and former research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory who has written about pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare, and has served as an advisor to the U.S. Congress on disinformation. DiResta appeared on The Jordan Harbinger Show and the Big Technology Podcast to discuss information ecosystems and recommend relevant literature. She recommended Damon Centola's book How Behavior Spreads to explain the mechanisms of complex contagion and behavioral diffusion. In addition, she discussed Harry G. Frankfurt's academic book On Bullshit, using its framework to describe information disseminated without regard for truth. DiResta also referenced Walter Lippmann's 1922 book Public Opinion while tracing the history of state propaganda and the phrase manufacture consent, contrasting Lippmann's ideas with Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's later use of the same phrase in Manufacturing Consent to examine top-down control. Finally, she discussed Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets in the context of how authorities communicate uncertainty.
Books Renee DiResta recommended or discussed
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How Behavior Spreads
Recommended“and that was the uh so the idea of complex contagion and how Behavior spreads he has a whole book called How Behavior spreads uh that actually kind of walks through this process in a bunch of different ways”
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Manufacturing consent
Discussed“And so in Chomsky's book, he uses the same phrase, manufacturing consent, but in a very different connotation, right? And what he is trying to do in that work is expose the extent to which there is this top-down control.”
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On Bullshit
Discussed“There is actually now an academic book called ‘On Bullshit!’ and it frames it as information without regard for the truth, right?”
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Public opinion
Discussed“The U.S. in World War I and II. Germany, of course, you know, Nazi propaganda in World War II. The U.K. had a propaganda office. This idea that states would manipulate the enemy public”
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Thinking in Bets
Discussed“um in yeah you know in authority and media almost like thinking in bets right Have you ever read that book or heard of your book yeah yeah”
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Books by Renee DiResta
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“What I liked about invisible rulers—the reason I picked that for the title of the book is, as you note, it's a reference to the 1920s.”