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Outrage industrial complex, the Glossary

The Outrage Industrial Complex (OIC) is a combination of forces including media outlets, social media influencers, political fundraising messaging, and individuals in media, political leadership or advocacy that in the late 20th and early 21st centuries exploited differences of opinion and what was termed a culture of contempt drawn along political and social lines, increasing distrust of institutions and society, to advance their own desires for fame, wealth, higher office, or for geopolitical reasons.^[1]

Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a Colorado-based, media watchdog, public benefit corporation primarily known for its Media Bias Chart, which rates media sources in terms of political bias and reliability.

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Addiction

Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare.

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Angry young men

The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

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Ann Coulter

Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative media pundit, author, syndicated columnist, and lawyer.

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Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic.

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Ben Shapiro

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American lawyer, columnist, author, and conservative political commentator.

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William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Braver Angels

Braver Angels (formerly Better Angels) is a New York-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to political depolarization.

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Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination

On July 9, 2018, President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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Burnett School of Medicine

The Burnett School of Medicine (formerly TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine) is the graduate medical school of Texas Christian University (TCU) located in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Cancel culture

Cancel culture is a cultural phenomenon in which an individual deemed to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner is ostracized, boycotted, shunned, fired or assaulted, often aided by social media. Outrage industrial complex and Cancel culture are Shunning and social rejection.

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Civil War (film)

Civil War is a 2024 dystopian thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman.

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Clickbait

Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait) is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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David Axelrod (political consultant)

David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant, analyst, and former White House official.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Gawker

Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers that was based in New York City and focused on celebrities and the media industry.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by Nature Portfolio.

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In-group and out-group

In social psychology and sociology, an in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.

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Jezebel (website)

Jezebel is a US-based website featuring news and cultural commentary geared towards women.

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Jo Cox

Helen Joanne Cox (Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lyceum movement

The lyceum movement in the United States refers to a loose collection of adult education programs named for the classical Lyceum which flourished in the mid-19th century, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest.

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder (born) is an American university professor, journalist, and television producer.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene (Taylor; born May 27, 1974), sometimes referred to by her initials MTG, is an American far-rightSources describing Greene as "far-right" include.

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Metro Times

The Detroit Metro Times is a progressive alternative weekly located in Detroit, Michigan.

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Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos (né Hanrahan; born 18 October 1984) is a British far-right political commentator.

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Moral panic

A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society. Outrage industrial complex and moral panic are social phenomena.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Near future in fiction

The near future has been used as a setting in many works, usually but not limited to the genre of science fiction.

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Nucleus accumbens

The nucleus accumbens (NAc or NAcc; also known as the accumbens nucleus, or formerly as the nucleus accumbens septi, Latin for 'nucleus adjacent to the septum') is a region in the basal forebrain rostral to the preoptic area of the hypothalamus.

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Online shaming

Online shaming is a form of public shaming in which targets are publicly humiliated on the internet, via social media platforms (e.g. Twitter or Facebook), or more localized media (e.g. email groups). Outrage industrial complex and Online shaming are internet-based activism.

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Outrage porn

Outrage porn (also called outrage discourse, outrage media and outrage journalism) is any type of media or narrative designed to use outrage to provoke strong emotional reactions for the purpose of expanding audiences or increasing engagement. Outrage industrial complex and outrage porn are internet-based activism, Phrases, political concepts, political neologisms, Shunning, social commentary, social concepts, social phenomena and social rejection.

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PBS News Hour

PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975.

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Peter T. Coleman (academic)

Peter Thomas Coleman (born September 9, 1959) is a social psychologist and researcher in the field of conflict resolution and sustainable peace.

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Psychology Today

Psychology Today is an American media organization with a focus on psychology and human behavior.

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Richard Thompson Ford

Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic foundation created and run by members of the Rockefeller family.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sensationalism

In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic.

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Stephen B. Heintz

Stephen B. Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert.

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Striatum

The striatum (striata) or corpus striatum is a cluster of interconnected nuclei that make up the largest structure of the subcortical basal ganglia.

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Talking Points Memo

Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a liberal political news and opinion website created and run by Josh Marshall that debuted on November 12, 2000.

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Texas Christian University

Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private research university in Fort Worth, Texas.

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The American Conservative

The American Conservative (TAC) is a magazine published by the American Ideas Institute which was founded in 2002.

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The American Interest

The American Interest (AI) was a bimonthly magazine founded in 2005, focusing primarily on foreign policy, international affairs, global economics, and military matters.

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The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and progressivism.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.

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The Navigators (organization)

The Navigators is a worldwide Christian para-church organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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The New York Observer

The New York Observer was a weekly newspaper established in 1987.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Spectator

The Washington Spectator is a left-leaning independent political periodical with a circulation of 60,000, published monthly by The Public Concern Foundation.

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Timothy Shriver

Timothy Perry Shriver (born August 29, 1959) is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996 and is the founder of UNITE.

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Troll (slang)

In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.

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Tucker Carlson

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator and writer who hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News from 2016 to 2023.

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University of Queensland

The University of Queensland (UQ or Queensland University) is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland.

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University of Utah

The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Valleywag

Valleywag was a Gawker Media blog with gossip and news about Silicon Valley personalities.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Voter identification laws

A voter identification law is a law that requires a person to show some form of identification in order to vote.

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WGCU (TV)

WGCU (channel 30) is a PBS member television station in Fort Myers, Florida, United States.

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Yes! (U.S. magazine)

YES! is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism.

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2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

The 2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate from Wisconsin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_industrial_complex

Also known as Culture of contempt.

, Talking Points Memo, Texas Christian University, The American Conservative, The American Interest, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, The Dallas Morning News, The Navigators (organization), The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Spectator, Timothy Shriver, Troll (slang), Tucker Carlson, University of Queensland, University of Utah, USA Today, Valleywag, Variety (magazine), Voter identification laws, WGCU (TV), Yes! (U.S. magazine), 2022 United States Senate election in Wisconsin.

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Shunning

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