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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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A few days after his murder, an Egyptian Google employee based in the United Arab Emirates, Wael Ghonim, set up a Facebook page called We Are All Khaled Said. The page, which exposed and protested police violence, attracted almost half a million followers, then became the key source of information about protests in Tunisia, which ultimately drove E
... See moreEthan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
... See moreThe problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital liberty turned out to be more corporate talking point than reality. We took the agenda-setting function away from individual power brokers and gave it to trillion dollar tech companies, whose faceless
The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents”
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Martin Gurri • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
Andreas Hepp’s formulation of “deep mediatization” points a further way out of determinism. Under this condition, Hepp writes, “all elements of our social world are intricately related to digital media and their underlying infrastructures.”28 If society has become so thoroughly mediated, how could we expect democracy to emerge in not-especially-dem
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
