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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Forestal (Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science, Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780197568750ISBN 10: 0197568750 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 03 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Chapter 1: Digital Technologies and the Problem of Democracy Chapter 2: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Facebook, Boundaries, and Forming Communities Chapter 3: Sustaining Democracy: Durability, Attachment, and Twitter Chapter 4: r/democracy: Flexible Spaces, Experimental Habits, and the Threat of Self-Segregation Chapter 5: Democracy For-Profit?: Control, Community, and the Role of Algorithms Chapter 6: ""Make No Little Plans"": Designing the Future of Democracy"ReviewsForestal brings democratic theory and digital platform design together to explore the future of online community building. She paints a compelling and hopeful picture of that potential future. Technologically sophisticated, philosophically astute, and exhaustively researched, Designing Democracy argues that we can rebuild digital public spaces in ways that facilitate cooperative problem solving, in a word, we can democratize the internet. This is a welcome challenge to the techno-dystopian trend that has gripped much recent scholarship about the future of democracy in a digital age. * Simone Chambers, University of California Irvine * Many books claim that Facebook and social media are destroying democracy. In this important book, Jennifer Forestal starts from the other end, asking whether social media create the democratic spaces in which citizens can build communities, and attach themselves to these communities and improve them through experimentation, argument, and inquiry. Designing for Democracy has valuable insights for political theorists, media scholars, political scientists, and sociologists interested in clear analysis of the promise and problems of new media. * Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins University * Designing for Democracy is political theory at its absolute best. It is an extremely sophisticated, problem-driven account of the perils and possibilities of digital technologies, but it is much more than that. It is also a capacious and original theory of democracy that emphasizes the importance of communal membership, attachment, and the willingness to work collaboratively and creatively to improve the structures that bind us together. Forestal brilliantly illuminates the way that virtual space, much like physical space, can be structured to foster sustainable communities or to discipline and divide us. * Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto * Author InformationJennifer Forestal is Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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