Sam Liebeskind

Global mega-platforms under capitalism are structurally incapable of handling the business of civilization: of governance, of providing genuinely public infrastructure, of making knife-edge decisions about the balance of liberties and securities. It’s not what they do or what they want to do, and in many cases it’s in opposition to their actual... See more

However, many tools for authoring personal classifiers on so-cial media are designed for users with heightened motivation , such as community moderators [ 12 , 40 ] and high-profile content cre-ators [ 41 ]. In focusing on these users, such tools neglect the usage patterns of general social media users, who spend significant time on social media... See more

There’s one other thing related to the questions of civic life and democracy that we have been talking about. If democracy is this challenge of people coming together to figure out the kind of shared lives they want to forge, then the behaviors that they use to negotiate difference are going to flow from the commitments they have to each other. So... See more

Great framework to empower people. — Apprentice: learning how to do things — Qualified: doing things — Proven: doing things and making sure they are done well — Empowered: knowing what needs to be done

What I have learned in my years studying the role of journalism in civic discussion is that democracies are best served when media coverage focuses on issues that affect society and people’s everyday lives and minimizes “horse race” reporting that obsesses over who is ahead in opinion surveys or fundraising.