Engagement in a Time of Polarization Topic 3: Navigating Participatory Engagement | Page 3

This idea that more speech—more participation, more connection—constitutes the highest, most unalloyed good is a common refrain in the tech industry.

We all live under this new regime of data analytics, but we don’t all experience it in the same way.

When the Overton window has shifted or expanded or contracted, it has often been the result of sustained political agitation.

The Digital Poorhouse

Unite the Right

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We need to understand the systems of power and monetization that lie behind the technologies that have come to order our world.

Rethinking Our Digital Future

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TOPIC 3

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Democracy-Poisoning Free Speech

NAVIGATING PARTICIPATORY ENGAGEMENT

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