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“plaza” architectures are large online environments centrally designed for general audiences, where participants get the biggest-picture view. But the openness and legibility of a plaza makes it brittle and difficult to maintain order, leading to eventual atrophy and decline.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Every webpage deserves to be a place
interconnected.org
It’s all too easy to overlook the rush of activity that enables privileged retreat; the Othered precarity that ensures our security; the tangle of urban, regional, national, and global socio-technical networks that support our local stasis — unless we are ourselves a node within those essential systems, or unless we experience the repercussions of ... See more
Shannon Mattern • How to Map Nothing
"What do we want to preserve?"
whatworks.fyiimposing order through habits of practice and thought.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
