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The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ’90s web is gone. The web 2.0 utopia — where we all lived in rounded filter bubbles of happiness — ended with the 2016 Presidential election when we learned that the tools we thought were only life-giving could be weaponized too. The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
learn from the limits of Web 2.0, where plurality in the face of centralized control tends to ultimately cede power to those who already wield it.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
But increasing freedom to participate in the public conversation has compensating values.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
We’ve grown so used to the idea that social media is damaging our democracies that we’ve thought very little about how we might build new networks to strengthen societies. We need a wave of innovation around imagining and building tools whose goal is not to capture our attention as consumers, but to connect and inform us as citizens.
Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review
Zuckerman’s 2013 book, Rewire.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
As we have seen in the previous theses, our digital environment:
Regulates our lives towards a smaller number of paths purposely designed by others rather than trails more fortuitous and exploratory.
Builds up a monolithic authentic self rather than a lush set of mutually-enriching contextual identities.
Is heavily focused on categorising people, whic