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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
I definitely think the "groupthink" is hyperaccelerated with mass media and communications. But social psychology is not my field and I don't know much about what the current concepts are, that is why I posted it.
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That is interesting and something that I had not considered before. Not in psychology either, but I know that there is a way that the media collaspes space and time in ways that allow us to conceptualize ourselves as a group. The positives are that we can think of ourselves as part of a larger group that we are connected to through the media and which we would have no other connection to otherwise (city, nation, world and so forth); one of the down sides could be this hyperaccelerated "groupthink". Benedict Anderson writes about that in
Imagined Communities; it might speak to some of the psychological connections that you want to make with group think.