Democracy is Losing the Online Arms Race

How media monopolies have damaged the public sphere – and what we can do about it.

I started writing about the potential for computer-mediated communication in 1987, decades before online communication became widely known as “social media.” My inquiries about where the largely benign online culture of the 1980s might go terribly wrong led me to the concept of the “public sphere,” which had received a ...
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Democracy is Losing the Online Arms Race