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Digital hyperconnectivity — the condition in which nearly everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time — has colonized the self, recast social interactions, reorganized the public sphere, revolutionized economic life and converted the whole of human culture into an unending stream of digital con
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Yet the cultural dominance of the iPhone — and the transformation of the open internet into “walled gardens” and apps focused on simplifying the user experience — has taken the “triumph of seamless usability” to a new level. This “tyranny of convenience,” to borrow Tim Wu’s phrase , should sensitize us to what may be lost when democratization proc
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technological maelstrom that saturates our own cultural environment
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Ali Breland • Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all
Center for Civic Media,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Layered Approach
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
Layered Approach