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technological maelstrom that saturates our own cultural environment
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Realize, too, the damage media have done to the public conversation, setting us at each other’s throats, pitting red vs. blue and black vs. white, simplifying the debate, erasing nuance, damaging communities, and amplifying the already powerful.
Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
(some studies have found that as few as one in four adults is able to consistently separate fact from opinion).
Kate Eichhorn • Content (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
Hi Patrick and Noah -- if you don't mind two cents from a humanist, I think there's a key concern that needs to be addressed: whether "progress studies" can be broad enough to include competing definitions of progress. And if not, then whether it should form a scholarly agenda.
clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
hollowing out the rudiments of democratic culture, especially the skills and habits of accountable association.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Since the scientific interface is not capable of serving the general population, people have to blind trust the institutions who communicate science publicly. When that trust evaporates, people begin to reject the information itself.