SuperPropaganda: They're Trying to Extract Human Brain Responses from All Known Media

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been funding and coordinating a program dubbed to allow them to take any and all media and extract what the human physoiological and behavioral responses from it would be.

The Chicago group will develop, test, and refine their data collection and analysis tools through research in three areas of inquiry: multimodal communication, neurobiology of social behavior, and cognitive and social neuroscience. But they foresee many other uses for the tools they will create. Most notably, their efforts will contribute to research on how human behavior can be automatically extracted, and even interpreted, from media like audio and video recordings. Such research may open the way towards mining the truly vast amounts of data on human behavior that are recorded every day.
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The media they intend to use is the government operated Archive.org (40 billion+ pages and related media), social networks and any other media that one could feed into this system for analysis. It's being spearheaded by sociologists, neuroscientists and behavioral scientitsts.

It's titled "Next Generation Cybertools", which is no surprise as it's like 21st Century intelligent datamining.

The Chicago project, headed by psychologist Bennett Bertenthal, will develop tools for collecting and analyzing human behavioral data on an unprecedented scale and level of sophistication. In their "SuperLab," the multidisciplinary team of researchers will be able to track human behavior in both individual and group settings, while collecting exquisitely detailed data on the participants in real time.

Imagine elitist propagandists and advrtisers (propagandists) using these "Cybertools" to test drive their various works in propaganda in order to develop the most sophistacated propaganda man has ever contemplated.

How is social behavior correlated with the participants' neural activity, for example? How is it connected with their movements, postures, gestures, facial expressions and speech--or for that matter, their state of development, environmental context and cultural norms? Central to the Chicago group's effort will be the creation of a distributed data warehouse known as the Social Informatics Data Grid (SID Grid): a piece of cyberinfrastructure will encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of standards for collecting and coding physiological and behavioral data.

With this they'll be able to take old "media", such as imporant events and related propaganda, to run sophistacated testing in order how to make 'it' even 'better' 'next time'.


Tracking

Then there's the other side of the coin: spying and tracking.

The NSF's own words make it sound like "Total Information Awareness" nightmare:

Likewise, community watchdog groups would be able to track the spread of "hate sites," and government agencies would be able to trace past and current uses of the Web for organizing and coordinating terrorist attacks.

Note how they desire to be able to use the entire history of the Internet for 'tracking terrorists'.

This would surely be a nice addition to the NSA's extensive 'toolbox' for spying on and tracking American Cititzens. Since they've already openly expanding into tracking every move inside "online social networks" (Myspace, etc), and have kept the 'Totalitarian Information Awareness' program operational (despite it being ruled unconstitutional by Congress), this one is a no brainer.
arstechnica.com...
collect.myspace.com...
www.google.com...

[edit on 27-5-2007 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]

You know this started as a project from the government, for decades we have been studied so the government can be able to control populations.

Then it was all for propaganda and to target different groups with different products.

This has been around for a long time and I know that behind all the adverstiment tools and media targeting is also research on human behaviour for government purposes.

Roger that.

I forgot to mention how advertisers themselves even began using fMRI brain scans to engineer the best advertising (propaganda) as early as last years Superbowl:

www.google.com...

It seems the extractions worked out as they intended, how crazy the world is now.