Designing for democracy : how to build community in digital environments / Jennifer Forestal.

"This chapter introduces the book's argument and approach. It argues that participatory democracy-understood as a method of collective problem-solving-is well-suited for understanding the democratic implications of digital technologies. The chapter then explains why the book takes the meth...

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Main Author: Forestal, Jennifer (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford studies in digital politics.
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520 |a "This chapter introduces the book's argument and approach. It argues that participatory democracy-understood as a method of collective problem-solving-is well-suited for understanding the democratic implications of digital technologies. The chapter then explains why the book takes the methodological approach of examining the democratic effects of digital technologies through the lens of the built environment. Ultimately, the reason is one of power: the built environment exerts considerable power over us, shaping our behavior in often-invisible ways. Insofar as democracy requires citizen participation in the decisions that shape their lives, they require a built environment that 'affords' the opportunity to engage in the requisite democratic practices-specifically, the practices of recognition, attachment, and experimentalism. In order to facilitate these practices, democratic environments must have three characteristics: 1) boundaries, to facilitate recognition, 2) durable spaces, to cultivate attachment, and 3) flexible spaces, to provide opportunities and resources for experimental habits"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 12, 2022). 
505 0 |a Cover -- Series -- Designing for Democracy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Digital Technologies and the Problem of Democracy -- 2. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Facebook, Boundaries, and Forming Communities -- 3. Sustaining Democracy: Durability, Attachment, and Twitter -- 4. r/​democracy: Flexible Spaces, Experimental Habits, and the Problem of Self-​Segregation -- 5. Democracy for Profit?: Control, Community, and the Role of Algorithms -- 6. "Make No Little Plans": Designing the Future of Democracy -- References -- Index 
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