Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
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Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
As more and more identity formation happens online, it’s is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it i... See more
Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
I will argue for reorienting habits around online spaces from deskilling to political skills, from server control to community control, from paternalism to governability.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
A dazzle of Slack bases, Discords, Telegrams, and Circles later, and it feels like we’ve arrived somewhere. Maybe it’s the post-social media era, where people move off the open platforms and into a curated mosaic of niche, private, and cooperative spaces. Or, maybe it’s just that the web we needed was here when we needed it.