TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schneider,Nathan
AU  - Medić,Darija
TI  - Governable spaces: democratic design for online life 
SN  - 9780520393943
AV  - TK5105.8854 .S36 2024
U1  - 384.334 23/eng/20230908
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Oakland
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Internet governance
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Feudalism
KW  - Social media and society
N1  - 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
N2  - "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 that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls "implicit feudalism": a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities' democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before"--
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