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When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and ‘benevolent dictators for life.’ In
Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls ‘implicit feudalism’: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.
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When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and ‘benevolent dictators for life.’ In
Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls ‘implicit feudalism’: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.
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Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master's program in Media and Public Engagement.购买此电子书可免费获赠一本！
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 206 ● ISBN 9780520393950 ● 文件大小 4.5 MB ● 出版者 University of California Press ● 发布时间 2024 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 9309169 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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