Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric.
Better design is warranted, but it is not enough if the goal is risk reduction. Risk reduction requires socialization, education, and enough agency to build experience. Moreover, if we think that people will still get hurt, we should be creating digital patrols who are there to pick people up when they are hurt.
danah boyd • Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
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
Even Baudrillard himself urges us to resist this polarized radicalization. “We have to fight against charges of unreality, lack of responsibility, nihilism and despair.” Jean Baudrillard We need a reality check. We need to let go of our hubris and bring each other closer together for connection, nuanced conversation and radical intimacy that can’t
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