A pre-print version: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12843" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12843</a>
and their open science page: <a href="https://osf.io/vs4d9/" rel="nofollow">https://osf.io/vs4d9/</a>
Baudrillard said that television has a "cooling" effect, that is it recasts citizens as consumers and dissuades political participation.<p>If it does that for 9999 out of 10,000 people, the 1 person who is motivated to (say) drive their car into a crowd at a protest will disappear in the statistics.