Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

wiki to manage bylaws and other documents.

There I took part in setting the school’s rules at the weekly “town meetings” and had the opportunity to lead the design of a new admission policy

There was no specified pathway to reconciliation or repair.

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.

the networked “signal” of movements can be self-defeating without “capacity” to translate it into durable, adaptable organizations that can wield leverage long enough to achieve shared goals.

There was no dispute-resolution system to turn to,

It is through the practice of intentional self-governing that people can begin rethinking and remaking their tools.

recognizing hidden care and domestic labor in economic life, • prioritizing human well-being alongside other metrics of wealth, • correcting for unequal access to authority and agency, • asserting the validity and inescapability of ethical judgment, and • intersecting gender analysis with that of race, class, and other forms of identity.

political skills, democratic play, and governable stacks.