Reimaging the Future of Digital Public Spaces

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

For better or worse, Twitter is a crucial part of our public sphere now. That’s one reason that Elon Musk may end up buying the social media platform. The move is prompting experts and scholars to reconsider the future of digital communities. Social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit have been criticized for overt censorship and for algorithms and guidelines that encourage the spread of misinformation. People in both camps have been asking: who should own and run these platforms and what should an online public sphere look like? We’ll talk about the future of digital communities in the social media landscape and we’ll want to hear from you. What do you want in an online commons? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.1	Music From KQaeda in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.3	Whether we like it or not, Twitter has become a crucial part of our public sphere now.
0:52.8	That's one reason that Elon Musk may end up buying the social media platform and tuning it to his liking.
0:58.0	On a day when the country is mourning, yet another mass shooting of children.
1:02.0	We're going to reconsider digital communities and the kind of spaces that we want to have online.
1:07.0	So for the next hour, we're going to talk about your visions for what we
1:10.9	optimistically called social media, examine the role Twitter does or does not play in
1:15.2	American life, and envision what a better public sphere online would look like. That's
1:20.1	all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:38.3	Before we get started on the rest of the show, we want to acknowledge the elementary school shooting in Texas yesterday, which left
1:45.8	at least 19 students and two teachers dead, and the pain, anguish, and anger that many of us are
1:52.7	feeling. For many, it was Warriors coach and longtime anti-gun violence advocate, Steve Kerr, who
2:00.0	captured the sentiment of this moment, the
2:02.5	latest in so many shootings in this country. Here is Steve Kerr yesterday at his pregame press
2:07.8	conference before the true death toll was even known. I'm not going to talk about basketball.
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