Forum is Launching a New Digital Community! How Can We Make the Internet Feel Like Your Bay Area?

KQED's Forum

KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For many of us, the internet has two faces. It can be a place where we’re bombarded by disinformation and polarized viewpoints, subjected to rage and frustration. But it can also be where people with different interests, ideas, and life experiences come together to find common ground. Share jokes. Build things together. This hopeful version of the internet is the focus of a new digital community that Forum’s creating on the platform Discord. We’ll talk about what our new community is, what we hope it will become, how to escape social media’s nasty decline, and how to foster conversations on the internet that aren’t awful. Guests: Eli Pariser, author, "The Filter Bubble: What the internet is hiding from you;" founder, New Public Marina Gorbis, executive director, Institute for the Future Grace Ling, founder, Design Buddies, Discord community Francesca Fenzi, digital community manager, KQED's Forum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Key QBD Podcasts comes from San Francisco International Airport. At SFO, you can shop,
0:06.7	dine, and unwind before your flight. Go ahead, treat yourself. Learn more about SFO restaurants and
0:12.7	shops at flysfo.com. Support for forum comes from Broadway SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.
0:23.4	From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,
0:29.6	a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an
0:35.3	unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion.
0:43.4	The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.
0:51.7	Tickets on sale now at Broadway, sf.com. From KQED.
0:58.0	From KQED. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and today is a really special day for Forum.
1:16.5	Today, we're publicly launching the digital community that we've been building behind the scenes.
1:21.7	This show has a special set of listeners.
1:24.3	People who care about our community from housing policy to sandwich shops. We meet
1:28.8	people together. We share things that are hard and things that are interesting. And I don't know
1:33.1	if you've been on the internet recently, but that's not how so-called social media feels. We want to
1:38.9	build forums DNA into a new digital home, and we'll need some of you there to help us. On today's show, we're going to tell you more about what we're doing,
1:46.7	and we're going to talk to some experts about why now is the moment for a new kind of digital community.
1:51.6	That's all coming up next, right after this news.
2:08.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I've been part of many different digital communities in my life.
2:17.1	Back in the day, I was a solid member of a BBS, a bulletin board system called country computing in rural Washington. I was 11 traded messages on the
2:19.7	message board and it was a little awkward when I showed up to the community barbecue, but I loved it
2:24.4	anyway. I wild away time on IRC and I was an early adopter of Friendster. Facebook launched out of my
2:31.6	dorm and I was one of the first thousand users, though I never really loved it.
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