{"id":385,"date":"2012-02-24T22:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T06:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/?p=385"},"modified":"2012-02-24T22:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T06:39:52","slug":"social-media-project-from-seti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/02\/24\/social-media-project-from-seti\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media project from SETI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the <a title=\"SETI Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Earth Speaks&#8221; project, <a title=\"Earth Speaks\" href=\"http:\/\/earthspeaks.seti.org\/pages\">you might want to do so<\/a>.\u00a0 You can log in to post or record a message you would like to send to an extraterrestrial intelligence, or submit your message via Twitter.\u00a0 The outcome of this has been <a title=\"Earth Speaks messages\" href=\"http:\/\/earthspeaks.seti.org\/messages?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">a large collection<\/a> of questions, dire predictions, jokes, Star Trek references and the to-be-expected indictments of humanity.\u00a0 Gary Stix of <a title=\"Scientific American\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/\">Scientific American<\/a> recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2012\/02\/24\/lonely-planet-social-media-gets-on-board-in-the-quixotic-search-for-extraterrestrial-life\/\">some examples of the discourse<\/a>, along with some commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Can we gain something from this reflexive exercise?\u00a0 I&#8217;m intrigued by the frequent Othering of humanity in the messages.\u00a0 Many bemoan our species&#8217; history of war and hatred, but this fixation on human flaws often apes the very misanthropy that it pretends to oppose.\u00a0 As of this posting, the words &#8220;peace&#8221; and &#8220;hello&#8221; dominate the message section&#8217;s rotatable tag cloud.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to say, and who do you think should hear it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the SETI Institute&#8216;s &#8220;Earth Speaks&#8221; project, you might want to do so.\u00a0 You can log in to post or record a message you would like to send to an extraterrestrial intelligence, or submit your message via Twitter.\u00a0 The outcome of this has been a large collection of questions, dire predictions, jokes,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/2012\/02\/24\/social-media-project-from-seti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93256,97314,495],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-scientific-american","tag-seti","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/freechoicelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}