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hollowing out the rudiments of democratic culture, especially the skills and habits of accountable association.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Because the mainstream social networks have been designed by a tiny number of people, we have been prevented from experimenting and creating new knowledge about what sustainable community management online looks like. Start erasing the line between operators, customers, and community members disappears, and squint; you begin make out the shape of a... See more
Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
This book will add one more accusation to the pile: the design of online social spaces has contributed to the atrophy of everyday democratic skills. The diagnosis also bears remedies. More than other explanations of democratic erosion, this account suggests that the future of democracy can begin at the level of ordinary community, wherever we find
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Agre was inverting it at MIT, calling for technology that invites people into developing skills through everyday politics.