[HN Gopher] The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public s...
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       The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public sphere
        
       Author : the-printer
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-06-23 15:53 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | the-printer wrote:
       | > As we have written in Noema [1], new mediating institutions,
       | such as citizens' assemblies, that encourage and enable civil
       | discourse and consensus formation at the same virtual scale as
       | social networks, are more necessary than ever because the forces
       | of fragmentation have never been greater. Mending the breach of
       | distrust between the public and institutions of self-government
       | in the digital age can only happen by absorbing the wired
       | activation of civil society into governance through integrating
       | connectivity with common platforms for deliberation.
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       | >
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       | > Just as republics have historically sustained themselves by
       | creating countervailing institutions to check power when too much
       | of it is concentrated in one place, so too such checks are needed
       | in the digital age when power is so distributed that the public
       | sphere itself is disempowered.
       | 
       | I'm unsure of Nathan Gardels and the Berggruen Institute's
       | ideological orientation. But I found this article and passages
       | such as the one above, _interesting_.
       | 
       | [1]: https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-
       | repair-t...
        
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