Victor PickardNov 18, 2022

One small silver lining to the Twitter debacle is that it's forcing people to think about the political economy of platforms. Calls for structural alternatives based on cooperative governance and public ownership are increasingly common.

Hopefully Twitter's collapse will lead to a more expansive conversation about the relationships between capitalist imperatives and the communication/information needs of democratic societies. Are they compatible? What are the alternatives?

Show threadDr. Yotam Ophir
@victorpickard Absolutely. and an opportunity to remember there's not much SOCIAL about social media. Not as long as it is based in capitalistic incentives. It's not a public sphere or a town square. It's a space for billionaires to collect our data and sell it to advertisers. If we do manage to build a community out of it, it's more of a side-effect than the goal
Nov 18, 2022 at 5:14pmWeb