The ways people can and cannot collectively self-govern in daily online life, furthermore, have been constrained in dominant social networks. Scholars and journalists have argued that social networks have worsened polarization, provided mouthpieces for authoritarians, enabled violent extremists to organize, and undermined trust in institutions. The growing ubiquity of online networks seems to have roughly preceded the rise of the new aspiring dictators. Those figures, more than trying to restrict and censor social networks, have embraced them as their own. His most recent book is “Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.” Nathan Schneider Theo Stroomer/Redux

Source: Daily Sun March 03, 2024 09:28 UTC