Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior

TL;DR — A PNAS perspective arguing that social media has rewired how humanity processes information, and that studying it should be a “crisis discipline” like climate science.

PNAS 118(27), 2021, with authors including Carl Bergstrom, Iain Couzin and Elke Weber. Human information flows were shaped by natural selection and are now restructured by communication technology; the consequences are poorly understood and threaten science, democracy and responses to global crises. The authors call for treating collective behaviour as a crisis discipline.

What it is: a perspective piece, an argument rather than new data, by a strong author group. Copy via the Wayback Machine.

Where this came from

• r/obscurePDFs post, June 2021 — “Stewardship of global collective behavior”. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit
• Link as posted: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/27/e2025764118.full.pdf

10 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.