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Governable spaces : democratic design for online life / Nathan Schneider; illustrations by Darija Medić.

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"When was the last time you participated in an election for a Facebook Group, or sat on a jury for a dispute in a subreddit? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and "benevolent dictators for life." In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues tha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via JSTOR)
Main Author: Schneider, Nathan, 1984- (Author)
Other Authors: Medić, Darija (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland : University of California Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Internet governance.
Online social networks > Political aspects.
Democracy.
Feudalism > Political aspects.
Social media and society.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : democracy in the wild
  • Implicit feudalism : the origins of counter-democratic design
  • Homesteading on a superhighway: how the politics of no-politics aided an authoritarian revival
  • Democratic mediums : case studies in political imagination
  • Governable stacks : organizing against digital colonialism
  • Governable spaces : democracy as a policy strategy
  • Epilogue : metagovernance.

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