How Democracies Die - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Brainstorming toward a new course for undergraduate non-specialists
What would you put on the syllabus?
Looking for specific readings and resources.
#academia #histodons #politics #media #democracy #crowdsourcing
@xankarn Social media and mediated experiences destroy communities and therefore democracy. They didn't have to, but they did.
There are some very specific details of system designs and the people that made decisions about them that led to this outcome. E.g. focused on engagement, feeds became doom scrolling anger fests.
It could have been different.
