
Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse


CommentPress allows readers to comment on a whole book, on a chapter of that book, on a paragraph in that chapter, and, of course, on other comments. It requires a little more thought to participate in a CommentPress conversation than to fire off a reply to a blog post, but that’s probably a good thing: the time it takes to think about whether what
... See moreAlan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
The more publicators there are, the further this free, unrestricted publishing descends towards the bottom of the social pyramid. And what emerges is an unprecedented horizontal, vertical and diagonal mobility of interpersonal relations. Everyone has access to everyone and everything. A huge number of people whose judgments previously extended no w
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