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Alicia Wanless

@lageneralista.ca

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Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · Aug 22

A wee book page - "The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality" is finally out! theinformationanimal.com

The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality - La Generalista

Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. How should we understand our enduring, ever-changing relationships with technology and knowledge? Description Depending on the news you read, new t...

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2d

The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.

On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!

They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources

Share the news 🔁

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

And Brooke Henderson is back! Not to mention rising starts in Tennis like Victoria Mboko:

www.cbc.ca/sports/golf/...

Henderson ends title drought, winning home CPKC Women's Open for 2nd time of career | CBC Sports

Canada's Brooke Henderson is again the CPKC Women's Open champion. Henderson shot a 4-under 67 to pull ahead of Australia's Minjee Lee by a stroke in Sunday's final round at Mississaugua Golf and Coun...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

Sarah Mitton is the repeat world champion in indoor shot put: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

Canada's Sarah Mitton repeats as world indoor shot put champion | CBC Sports

Sarah Mitton successfully defended her title, winning Canada's first gold medal at the world indoor track and field championships in Nanjing, China on Friday with a 20.48-metre throw in the women's sh...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

Earlier this year 19-year old Summer McIntosh won 4 gold medals and a bronze and I feel like my count it is off:
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Summer McIntosh captures 4th gold of swimming worlds, winning 400m individual medley | CBC Sports

Canadian swim star Summer McIntosh won the women's 400-metre individual medley for her fourth gold medal of the world championships in Singapore, capping one of the most dominant weeks in the sport's ...

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

The Canadian rugby team is in the finals today rising to that without any official support. Win or lose, that’s amazing in my books: www.cbc.ca/sports/engla...

England leading Canada 33-13 late in Women's Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham | CBC Sports

Canada and England meet in the Women's Rugby World Cup final Saturday at Twickenham's Allianz Stadium before a sellout crowd of 82,000, a record for a women's rugby test match.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

If you haven’t notice, Canadian women are quietly kicking ass the world over. Magdeleine Vallieres became the women’s road race world champion: www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/canad...

Canada's Magdeleine Vallieres become's women's road race world champion in Rwanda

Canada secure shock gold in women's road race, as all the favourites miss out on the medals

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 11d

Highly recommend The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by @stephenmarche.bsky.social who still somehow manages to end it on a hopeful note. It came out in 2022 and remains shockingly prescient www.cbc.ca/books/the-ne...

The Next Civil War | CBC Books

A book by Stephen Marche.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 13d

I remember these things!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 13d

Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation? But how practical is the hope that Finland can be a beacon for other democracies? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
According to @lageneralista.ca from the Carnegie Endowment Information Environment Project, "Ecologically speaking, not very."

Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation?

The reported absence of significant attacks will likely continue to fuel the belief in democratic policy circles that Finland is a shining example other countries should follow in the fight against di...

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Jeff @jammaj.bsky.social · 14d

Featuring @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina.bsky.social, @jonrauch.bsky.social & the #GreekChorus

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Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · 16d

@lageneralista.ca has written a truly thought provoking book for our times. Well done.

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Clash of the narratives

Thoughts on Alicia Wanless's book The Information Animal

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 19d

All the more effect refusing to smile for it too.

a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

ALT: a cartoon of a chef with a needle in his mouth is playing at 4:32

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 19d

Reminder, there's a network of local cable access and community media centers where you can broadcast your own content.

www.allcommunitymedia.org

Home

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 21d

If it’s all AI, will they interview other AI? Will the audience be AI? Is it all just a house of cards? A world of avatars is what they want?

Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22d

As per the DSTV surprise connection in Barcelona, we need to get @laddecker.bsky.social on to talk about the collab that came from the show!

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 22d

Someone just pointed out the kind shout-out Sophie Grove gave me on Monocle Radio's The Briefing - Great recap of a fabulous conference! monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Live from the Monocle Quality of Life Conference in Barcelona - Monocle

Monocle’s editors and producers join Tom Edwards and Ed Stocker live from this year’s Quality of Life Conference in Barcelona...

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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 23d

I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

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UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social · 23d

🎧 Looking for a great audio interview?

CSDI Director @heiditworek.bsky.social spoke to KKFI Radio about the modern communication landscape, what we can learn from media trends of the past, and much more. kkfi.org/program-epis...

News from Germany 1900-1945 and implications for today • KKFI

University of British Columbia history professor Heidi J.S. Tworek1 discusses her research on the impact of the media on politics in Germany focusing especially in 1900 through 1945 and its […]

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Vera Bergengruen @verambergen.bsky.social · 23d

For those not steeped in online conservative circles, Charlie Kirk was hardly a household name outside the U.S. before this past week. But his death has galvanized right-wing figures abroad who have hailed him as a martyr for a global movement.

Latest ⬇️ www.wsj.com/world/charli...

Charlie Kirk’s Death Unites a Global Right That Sees Its Movement Under Siege

Conservative leaders from Pretoria to Tokyo framed the killing of the U.S. activist and organizer as proof of an existential threat.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: 77% of Americans say the US political system needs major changes or complete reform.

Those who say the same about their country
Nigeria 91%
Brazil 87%
S Korea 86%
Greece 83%
Kenya 80%
France 74%
UK 58%
Germany 48%
Canada 47%
Sweden 29%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

A bar chart showing that People in many countries say their political system needs major changes or complete reform

Majorities in most of the 25 countries surveyed say their political system needs major changes or complete reform.

About eight-in-ten adults or more in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, South Korea and the U.S. say their system needs this type of change. In contrast, around three-in-ten share this view in the Netherlands and Sweden.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 23d

If you'd like a sneak peek at The Information Animal, @hilltimes.com has an excerpt in this week's paper, which we've unlocked for a limited time here - it's from one of my favourite chapters looking at Finland www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Is Finland a model for Canada to counter disinformation?

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 24d

Today’s race start. We did not win.

Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 25d

There is still time to sign up for and read the books for the next @dogshirttv.bsky.social book club on September 25. While my book is up, I’ll reveal the mysteries of why I paired it with The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab: substack.com/@aliciawanle...

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Ben and the DSTV crew are starting a book club - and well, I’m being self serving with my first pairing - more because I want to see if anyone sees the link between the two.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25d

“But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social wrote in his piece here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Something Is Very Wrong Online

The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.

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Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca · 26d

And Jordi Labanda made us these

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