C. Thi Nguyen: The Gamification of Public Discourse (Royal Institute of Philosophy)

Part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's 2019 London Lecture series: How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge.
Social media has turned conversation into a game, where we compete for points in the form of likes, retweets, and follower counts. This tempts us to trade away the subtle goods of discourse-like connection, understanding, and wisdom-in return for the thrills of success in vividly quantified terms.
C. Thi Nguyen is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Utah Valley University. He has written on games, trust, echo chambers, and moral outrage porn.
This lecture was delivered on November 29, 2019.