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Albert O. Hirschman between the signals of “exit” and “voice” in organizational life.10 Exit is the capacity to depart, such as by quitting a job or shopping with a competitor; voice is the capacity to make change from within, such as by lobbying one’s city council for a local policy change or filing a complaint about a defective product.
although Parler, for instance, pioneered user juries for enforcing its sparse content-moderation policies.
slow is less a matter of velocity than of making time to observe and attend to the relationships at play.
governable spaces can be sites of problem-solving for vexing challenges in three domains of the online economy: social-media communities, platform-mediated work, and network infrastructure.
cultivated norms around the use of “Talk” pages and a complex system of permissions and roles,
The modules available for Decidim reflect its diverse uses: assemblies, participatory budgeting, structured debates, permissionless initiatives, petitions, juries, delegative voting, crowdsourcing, and more.
technology it generates would not teach political skills.
On its own, Git seems to break the norm of implicit feudalism. No one developer’s version is intrinsically canonical, so every user becomes in some sense an admin, a first-class citizen. But this means that Git leaves a power vacuum. Developers must eventually choose a canonical version of the code to be the basis of any official release.
mutual help among communities that constitute a larger whole.
“The issue lattice is sufficiently complex,” Agre writes, “that it will never emerge without high levels of political skill diffused throughout the society.”
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