Public intellectuals set the frame while the internet amplifies its threats.

Evidence

There seems to be a symbiotic relation between these two spheres, the public intellectuals and the internet, while the former delimits the structure and rules of the discourse, the latter fills in the details, magnifies the threats, and reaches wider audiences. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 682

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the division of labor between credentialed discourse-manufacturers and meme-level distribution — a theory of how an ideology scales.