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BriannaCummingsSecondPaperTalk 9 - 25 Jan 2016 - Main.ShayBanerjee
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-- BriannaCummings - 15 Jan 2016
I wanted our conversation to be able to continue so I have moved it here. | | | (3) Citizens who primarily get their news from the Internet, and are exposed to a wide variety of gatekeepers ("open Internet") | |
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< | I don't think anyone denies that we would rather have (3) to (1), or that we should be fighting to convert (2) to (3). The question is whether the mass transition from (1) to (2) has adversely affected the forum. I think there is a good argument that it has, primarily because in (2) information moves faster and people are arguably less likely to read articles thoroughly -- both of which are products of the Internet itself. | >
> | I don't think anyone denies that we would rather have (3) to (1), or that we should be fighting to convert (2) to (3). The question is whether the mass transition from (1) to (2) has adversely affected the public forum. I think there is a good argument that it has, primarily because in (2) relative to (1) information moves faster and people are arguably less likely to read articles thoroughly -- both of which are products of the Internet itself. | | | | |
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< | The long-term solution is obviously to liberate the Internet. If media exposure is democratically determined, users will, over time, develop more rational and tolerant belief systems. But in the meantime, most Americans are still living in the Matrix, Donald Trump is up in the polls, and, if we are the truly the shepherds of the Internet, there has to some element of taking the fight to them. | >
> | The long-term solution is obviously to liberate the Internet. If media exposure is democratically determined, users will eventually develop more rational and tolerant belief systems. But in the meantime, most Americans are still living in the Matrix, Donald Trump is up in the polls, and, if we are the truly the shepherds of the Internet, there has to some element of taking the fight to them. | | | -Shay |
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