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Summary:

"When was the last time you participated in an election for a Facebook Group, or sat on a jury for a dispute in a subreddit? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and "benevolent dictators for life." In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls "implicit feudalism": a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences of this arrangement matter far beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities' democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using media archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : democracy in the wild
• Implicit feudalism : the origins of counter-democratic design
• Homesteading on a superhighway: how the politics of no-politics aided an authoritarian revival
• Democratic mediums : case studies in political imagination
• Governable stacks : organizing against digital colonialism
• Governable spaces : democracy as a policy strategy
• Epilogue : metagovernance.

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Nathan, 1984- , author

Contributors:

Medić, Darija , illustrator

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Governable spaces: democratic design for online life [by Schneider, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Governable spaces [by Schneider, N.] (Oakland : University of California Press, 2024 — ISBN 9780520393943; LCCN 2023036722)

Subjects:

Internet governance

Online social networks — Political aspects

Democracy

Feudalism — Political aspects

Social media and society

Online social networks

Feudalism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TK5105.8854 .S364 2024eb

ISBNs:

0520393953
9780520393950 (electronic bk.)
9780520393943 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023036723

OCLC Numbers:

1397061567