Designing Digital Spaces That Bring Us Together Is Solvable

Solvable

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, News

4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Eli Pariser is a social activist and technology entrepreneur. He sits on the U.S. Programs Board of the Open Society Foundation and the Information and Democracy Commission. He is currently co-director of the Civic Signals project with Talia Stroud, at the National Conference on Citizenship.

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New Public by Civic Signals

What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?, Eli Pariser, TED

Palaces For the People, Eric Klinenberg

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William Whyte

Run Your Own Social, A social media toolkit

The Media is the Message, Marshall McLuhan

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:15.3	This is Solvable. I'm Jacob Weisberg.
0:18.7	I do think we'll look back in 10 years or 20 years at this era of the Internet and be like,
0:24.1	it was so crazy and kind of cute that we thought that you could connect all of human society
0:30.1	through 180 or 230 character snippets of text.
0:35.9	In the early 2000s, Eli Pariser was running MoveOn.org and thinking about how to reach
0:41.5	people through the internet.
0:43.4	It was during that time that Pariser realized something important.
0:47.0	The algorithms being used by companies like Facebook were standing between his work and the
0:52.1	wider audience he was trying to reach.
0:54.8	Periser introduced the world to the idea of filter bubbles
0:57.9	and warned that they could be isolating us from ideas and perspectives
1:02.1	we might not already agree with.
1:04.7	It now seems that many of the algorithms used by social media companies,
1:08.7	and not just Facebook, have contributed to the political polarization
1:12.7	we're experiencing today.
1:14.3	We saw a kind of, you know, worst imaginable case scenario on January 6th.
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:20.6	How much of the blame for that do you think goes to the social platforms?
1:26.1	The social part of it allowed people both to coordinate and find each other,
1:32.1	and then to create this kind of shared reality,
1:36.1	people showed up not totally knowing if they were playing a role,
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