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sources, how could we tell truth from error? Or, in a more sinister vein, honest research from manipulation?
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
number of new sources,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
the rise of immensely powerful online communications and commercial platform monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon with far-reaching control over news, debate, book publishing, music, television and film, online gaming, and how individuals and groups share information with one another
Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
the now mostly forgotten history of how, during previous revolutions in information technology, Americans successfully protected free speech and democracy by using government to carefully manage competition and structure news media markets, including through direct regulation of essential communications platforms.
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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
C H A P T E R 4 Goodbye, Mr. Gates
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
a flood of new digital communication platforms inundating free societies with instantaneous information and nonstop networked dialogue.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
