Contrary to their marketing, digital labor schemes don’t work in spite of predicaments like the occupation or the refugee crisis - they work because of them.
Seeking to unravel what is behind a change in public sentiment towards the internet, this series begins with intersecting dimensions in what is lazily often presented as ‘The Internet’s problem’. Part One.
Do all of us need to move outside our ‘comfort zones’ and self-imposed ‘echo chambers’, both to come up with better diagnoses of the populist challenge, and to define constructive political action collectively ?
Why do people want to believe what they do? They want meaningful lives. Why do it this way? A report-back from the Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy 2017.
How can we reconquer the capital city, symbolically – both in real and virtual terms – to capture the imagination of youth, to reorient it towards creativity, imagination and engagement?
Media diversity must mean more than more of the same. The media sphere needs to be a public space where debates occur among and between many different groups and classes.
“An unintended consequence of objectivity is a distancing so great that some communities are left feeling unseen or misunderstood. This attitude, not new technologies, is the root of journalism’s disappearing audience.”
