On Digital Disobedience
There’s not enough disobedience online. Yes, that’s right, you heard me: there’s not enough space for disobedience online.
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Collective Accountability in Digital Spaces
Read more → More from Duly Noted →Note: I recently started writing a newsletter about the intersection of technology and governance,Hello, Governor! I’m still experimenting with format, content, etc, so feel free to give feedback about what you like or what you’d want to see.
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Collective Accountability in Digital Spaces
Read more → More from Hello, Governor →It can be a struggle to hold groups accountable for misbehavior, even when the group is structured through legal forms, with public membership and clear leadership. On social media platforms populated by anonymous accounts, with membership and leadership often informal and invisible, accountability feels like a pipe dream.
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Degrees of Separation
Read more → More from Out of Many →With the exception of rare contrivances like king’s missives and broadcast television, we learn most of what we learn and meet most of the people we meet through networking. This has always been true, but it’s clearer than ever with social media. To be honest I rather like it. When a friend I trust or a writer I admire shares a link I tend to follow along enthusiastically.
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Agency and Trust in a Digital Democracy
Read more → More from Out of Many →Last week I was on a panel about ‘Democracy and the Digital Commons’ at Suffolk University. At the start of the panel, each of us gave a 5-10 minute talk to help frame the discussion. While there’s no transcript of the panel itself, here are my notes for the intro. (Quick context: each of us tied our talk to the Boston Marathon bombing and in particular Reddit’s response to it.)
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Social safety nets and ahistoricity
Read more → More from Duly Noted →From the studiously moderate Brookings Institution:
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A precedent of subjectivity
Read more → More from Out of Many →Mike Montiero recently posted an essay to Medium "One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end". It's a good piece, but what really struck me was this referenced Tweet from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: