Parademic Database Week Notes Ending 191006 Digital Ethnography

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1. Digital Ethnography, -1.1. Indirect Autopsies, 2. WWII Sequella Oil, 3. Humor to Communicate, <ADDED >1. Measles Elimination.

Other Topics: BioPolitics, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, Polemic, Vaccination, Polemic, Mephetic, Leaking Oil, Measles, Vaccine Exemptions, Technology Changing Culture, Information Silos

-1. The ideal way to collect information about human behavior in the context of biocalamity is a global connected multi linguistic collaborative team with members in all regions, jurisdictions and biomes on Earth, and then synthesize the analysis by interdisciplinary conference. That however is not socially feasible, though the technology exists. The curator of PDWN, who is a monolingual individual with a limited range for skill sets, takes advantage of technology in another way. The method chosen by PDWN is digital ethnography =2=, collecting parademic data via the internet [Quote], but not using electronic methods to identify the data. 190421-2.2.

-A. Using the internet means collection of information though the filters of non expert observers, who are likely to have biases and agenda’s to support their particular narrative. This however does allow Mass observation =2= =3= =4=, and if one selects a wide range of bias and agendas, that is counter and opposing narratives, one can control for slants, skewed data and interpretations that are not objective but intended to maintain an a priori narrative.

-B. The criteria and standards for validity of information is not if it verifiable though lab experiment, but demonstrations that information is believed as true and influence behavior. As one becomes familiar with sources one learns in what way their material is valid, their editorial biases, narrative spins, and in some cases use of erroneous, outdated and intentional malicious misinformation =2=. At this time there are few to no sources that have complete integrity and are fully trustworthy. That does not mean there will be errors and mistakes, but one should be able to expect that there is continual testing and verification, and the honesty to admit error when the evidence counters what was once thought to be true.

-C. A major weakness of this collection method is that if the internet is lost then parademic data is likewise lost. However, that would be moot as the likely cause of lost of the global internet is a cascading infrastructure collapse, possible due to extinction or other global biocalamity with mass human casualties. Another challenge for collection is that as there are efforts to eliminate misinformation. As much of mis and disinformation provides insights into parademic this will lose one source of information. This would be equivalent to a disease or environmental contamination going dormant or being hidden, still festering and eventually erupting into a larger, perhaps more lethal, event.

-D. One of the original intents of PDWN was to be able to quickly provide a database of information in a topical area that is not covered by search engine algorithms or otherwise a common category. The thought was this would save massive amounts of times for those who could use the information, preferably before the need becomes desperate. That never succeeded, Even with the increasing pertinence of critical need to grasp the social dimensions of the increasing accelerations of biocalamities, there is limited motivation to make the effort to change worldviews. PDWN for the time being is a weather rope [Sign, Photo]. If there is a major upswing in interest it will be an indicator that the situation is now in dire deceleration.

+E. One thing learned from locating data related to parademic is to not focus solely on, medicine, health and environment. Though those topical areas are helpful it was found that better sources were economics, business, politics, real estate, weather, anti science, magic, media about the media, communications, pseudo science as marketing, fear mongering, social psychology, human behavior and culture, education, legislation and court cases, one health, management, decision making, public health, leadership, fictional stories, art, humor and human conflicts. There are also a few blogs and topical websites that are useful. 191013-1.1. It could be that if parademic, concept not the word, becomes a common category, that important data will be lost due to the silo effect. In extreme cases this self inflicted isolation can be echo chambers where the only information available reflects the silos narratives. Echo chambers are also called Not Invented Here, or Not From Us syndrome, the refusal to accept information that was not originated within the silo and therefore its validity cannot be trusted.

-1.1. Verbal Autopsies Used in Push to Better Track Global Deaths. An estimated 60 million people in the world will die this year, and half will have no death certificates or other records describing what killed them. Most will be in low and middle income countries, particularly in Africa and parts of Asia. That means the common understanding of overall disease and mortality trends in the developing world often relies upon broad estimates and guesswork. So do the decisions many countries make about which health problems to prioritize. The scale of the problem is really quite staggering. There’s a moral imperative, as well as analytical one, to be able to shine a light on those otherwise invisible deaths. Mortality among humans is not the best means to track biocalamity, having a major flaw. Deaths tends to be toward the end of acceleration processes. This data is not immediately useful in terms of spotting the trend, left of outbreak, before it becomes a mass fatality deceleration. As this data is collected it should be increasingly possible to start pushing back toward the origins which are likely not human (zoonosis), finding earlier indicators of trends that can accelerate and crash into human populations (for example canaries in mines), and clues on how to mitigate perhaps even someday prevent.

-2. The Ticking Time Bomb of WWII Era Shipwrecks. “You’ve got a really healthy ecosystem with amazing corals and healthy marine life on these amazing structures. And then inside these ships there’s thousands and thousands of liters of oil that’s potentially going to wipe out all this marine life”. While it might sound like a movie script, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario. As with most biocalamities this has been known as a problem for a long time, but the cost of figuring out how to fix, developing the means to fix, and then fixing has been too high =2=, that is until lives of decision makers are at risk or lost. Oil to be Removed from Sunken WWII Tanker near Long Island =2=. [Photo USS Arizona]. A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radioactive Material into the Atlantic Ocean.

-3. Leave ‘Em Laughing Instead of Crying: Climate Humor Can Break down Barriers and Find Common Ground, 190929-4.1. Climate change is not inherently funny. Typically, the messengers are serious scientists describing how rising greenhouse gas emissions are harming the planet on land and at sea, or assessing what role it played in the latest wildfire or hurricane. Society may have reached a saturation point for such somber, gloomy and threatening science centered discussions. Better to get messages out about climate change through comedy and humor. [Cartoon =2= =3= =4= =5=]. A Laughing Matter. Confronting Climate Change Through Humor. Humour as used in parademic in an information source not laughter. It is insights from unexpected juxtapositions, getting deeper interpretations on emotions and information that are not communicated otherwise. [Quote].