The election run is simply a large chance to become the best president from Facebook. It is besides the time of the largest PR carewashing and womenwashing, which have now moved from the nationwide political scene to powiat and peripheral Poland.
As a consequence of this relocation, local elections increasingly diverge with reality and match competition between influencers. I ignore the infantilism of this phenomenon (let everyone justice what suits him). I am more curious in the overwhelming effects of specified practices. The deficiency of serious political action, overshadowed by increasingly ingenious campaigns created through vertical videos, is peculiarly far from those social groups that request the most support and solidarity. Unfortunately, you can no longer photograph or movie this with your smartphone.
It is worth combining this way of campaigning with the general phenomenon of changing attention. At the minute our focus on information is 47 seconds (2023), not 75 seconds (2012) or 2.5 minutes (2004). Do politicians and politicians besides increasingly abuse women and children for political purposes as a consequence of this shift of attention? This seems to be an effective tool for attracting possible voters and voters.
After the national elections, let us take an example of Łukasz Litewska, whose method of action he carefully described Kajetan Woznikowski. He won the election due to his political possible or his influencer action? The problem is that we inactive don't have adequate analysis and investigation of specified phenomena.
Therefore, democracy peculiarly needs attention now, not a context which distracts it or directs it towards it, at least essential. And of course, the regulations, which is clearly visible after the last action performed Donald Trumpwho, as part of his presidential campaign, utilized a Deep Fake supporting him to legitimize himself as a candidate for this social group.
The imagination of Deep Fakes utilized in the local elections of the region Poland is not as distant as that. For the moment, the groundwork is being prepared by social media manipulation strategies, not so much implemented with AI, but with the usage of citizens themselves and citizens whose engagement is being utilized for run purposes. The effect? Although achieved utilizing little advanced technologies.
Strength of women and carewashing
If the provincial typical of the Silesian state for women works for free, I can, too, right? After respective months of bottom-up group action Each is important, in which over 180 women from the Silesian Voivodeship turned to authorities at different levels to address women's equality seriouslyWe got a gift. It is the candidate for president Zawiercie, who was appointed as the Provincial Plenipotentiary for Women just before announcing her start.
On the website of the Silesian Provincial Office, we can read that Anna Nemś has a social function (free of charge). With the names of another attorneys and attorneys in the WWU, specified an endorsement is no longer present. Why does action for women's rights not require funding, since the proxy itself is to deal with, among another things, the issue of wage inequality? In any case, the proxy decided to deal with "women's affairs": it doubled the social action by doing its own, alternatively of entering into dialog with what has long been built in this region by grassroots movements.
And the Silesian Voivodeship has been active for many years for women's rights. No 1 asked them about the choice of proxy. The fresh typical herself informed the public of the choice of specified a position. Where? On his social media profile. There's a good picture, a smile, a signature. It's only a pity that no 1 knew about this choice before the papers were signed!
Organizational and method services of the proxy are provided by the Provincial Office, and method support is provided by the Department of household and Social Policy and the Department of Health. Women's affairs have so been assigned to those 2 departments that associate stereotypically with our roles: Kinder küche kirche. After all, women do not deal with another areas specified as the economy, environment, education or science.
In the first 4th of the year alone (and March is not finished yet!) I received more than a twelve proposals from various institutions (also public) on women's issues – very unexpectedly. due to the fact that I'm a woman, and women support women. And men want to hear them due to the fact that they are strong and wise. At most of these meetings, I was going to execute as a fern to embellish men in power and their superb ideas on how to appreciate women. It's a bottom-up voice. Without pay, of course. That's the strength of women.
What's the point in the modern, boisterous and full planet context of the panel, where I get a maximum of 5 minutes to pronounce my sentence, and the group he represents will inactive be marginalized as shortly as the light goes out? Is this free time at your disposal not a reflection of the hypershort timeliness of social media on which what I say will land or be quoted in specified a way as to rise comments, preferably polarized, due to the fact that they are better “engage” and attract more attention?
It is worth looking at more and putting in the context of democratic change under the influence of algorithms that find what and how we can learn about the planet on a local and global scale. Manipulative usage of social media and its powering algorithms to strengthen their political positions is to take as prisoners the voters themselves and electorally, who have no chance of getting an opinion on candidates and candidates in any another way than watching them or their in a state of conflict, due to the fact that it is his continuous instigation that increases coverage and visibility. So what do we do? Is it possible to engage in this cacophony and fight for even better scope and visibility, or can it search another path?
Strategy two: sweetness
Right. You can besides be sweet. photograph with children and young people, while the image of the kid is protected in Poland under the provisions of the civilian Code, in the Copyright and Related Rights Act. In France, up to EUR 45 000 is being fined for distributing photos with someone's image (including children).
But there's a way. After all, there are children from institutions that parents do not know! You don't just gotta photograph your children due to the fact that all our children are. Meanwhile, in Poland since last year we have the biggest crisis of replacement care.
According to the study on support for the substitute care strategy in the deinstitutionalisation process, between 2019 and 2021 the increase in the number of children targeted at organization care due to deficiency of place in household care was more than twice (in 2019 specified children were seventeen and 2 years later thirty-six). In the same period the number of children transferred from household care to organization care increased by 62.5 percent.
What affected it? A pandemic and leaving families in crisis? How about the anti-abortion bill that many women have given birth to unwanted children? Or possibly the deficiency of an adequate and careful social policy pursued by institutions whose employees have not seen a wage increase in years? I'll leave these questions open.
The weakening of attention and failure of care, resulting from global technological changes dictated by digital giants, is connected with this festival of distraction from crucial matters and their dilution in the feria of colour images. The problem, however, is that these images live a fewer seconds and die among a billion others, and the problems stay the same and become increasingly hard to solve. Especially erstwhile we're not serious.
Therefore, I remind you that in order to be someone's ally, 1 must first be him or her, them or perceive to them, not "declare" as an ally. Being an ally or an ally at the same time requires attention, time, cognition and empathy. In a time of populism and entanglement with mechanisms that we frequently have no influence on, the best we can do for democracy is to be attentive and to require this attention from politicians and politicians and public institutions. Otherwise, from the reality of full manipulation we will jump to the reality of deep fakes, to which it is not so far away.
