Collection
Collective Intelligence x Democracy
Updated 4d
Collection
Updated 4d
Democracy as a Scaled Collective Intelligence Process: Points of Vulnerability and Augmentation
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Improving social media for democratic discourse
Social media have expanded opportunities for communication and political participation, but today's dominant platforms are optimized primarily for engagement and advertising revenue, contributing...
Holdfast 0: Situating
This post introduces the written version of some optimistic and constructive thinking on knowledge in networks that I’ve been wrestling with since the end of last year.
Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
Episode #130 - Dewey and Lippmann on Democracy — Philosophize This!
Dewey and Lippmann on Democracy
Democracy and the Epistemic Commons - The Consilience Project
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Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
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Democracy has Hamlet’s Problem: The Search for Relevance in a Complex World
To cope with the complexity of the world, cognitively limited agents must employ framing to identify what is relevant and stabilise meaning. Yet democracy rests on the Popperian fallibilist imperat...
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
It is becoming increasingly apparent that societies must create conditions to stop being merely spectators (and exploitation objects) of digitalisation. Instead of allowing it to further concentrate wealth, influence, and surveillance, open corporate silos and simultaneously build public capacity.
