Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @[email protected] by @ethanz.bsky.social | @[email protected] for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting.
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media. This week on Reimagining, Nathan explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing […]

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Enjoyed this interview of @ntnsndr.in | @ntnsndr by @ethanz.bsky.social | @ethanz for #ReImaginingTheInternet. Their timeline of where social media went off the rails (from ✌️neutral✌️ platforms to a politicized spaces) was particularly interesting. https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media. This week on Reimagining, Nathan explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing […]

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

"This week on #ReimaginingTheInternet, Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr) explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing democracy in everyday ways can teach us how to practice it well again.

Nathan Schneider wrote the fantastic #GovernableSpaces, out now on UC Press and freely available online."

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/

110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media. This week on Reimagining, Nathan explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing […]

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Rewind: Third Wave Internet with Ben Tarnoff - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst

Rerun of episode 81 from June 24th, 2023 We’re always told algorithms are going to change our world. And they do, but it always seems to be for the worse. Do we have any alternative to simply breaking the machines that have run afoul of our values and needs? We’re thrilled to welcome Ben Tarnoff […]

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