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Cornell finds, the institutionalization and fostering of distinct identities increase autonomous groups' "cohesion and willingness to act";

Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme positio... See more

nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times

La disparition des procès politiques traditionnels vient tout d’abord de la modification et de la dépolitisation du cadre judiciaire dans lequel se déroule les procès des activistes, dépolitisation que j’ai déjà évoquée : les infractions choisies sont non politiques et les juridictions de jugement ne sont pas spécialisées dans le jugement des milit

Vanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)

Networks have also had a contentious relationship with developers, who brought in millions of early users. Developers built alternate clients, invented UI paradigms, and even launched billion-dollar gaming companies. But as they grew, the networks realized that they didn’t need developers anymore. Most users were locked in and wouldn’t leave becaus... See more

Varun Srinivasan • Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks

Early in the twenty-first century, the attempt to enact exclusivity-based laws for controlling access to digital resources in the US gave rise to the open movement. The movement quickly gained momentum. The champions of openness hoped that universal access to knowledge and culture, made possible thanks to the power of the Internet, would contribute... See more

Zuzanna Warso • Openness and digital human rights – Open Future

How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios

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Epistemic exploitation was coined by Nora Berenstain in 2016, for instance, to describe the injustice caused when marginalized people are expected to share their knowledge.

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

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Dans la ville de Monroe, la section locale de la NACCP est au bord de la dissolution,