Democratic politics requires building coalitions.
Building coalitions requires compromise, patience, forbearance.
Social media is the space where much political organizing happens these days.
Social media fosters the exact opposite of compromise, patience, and forbearance.
Building coalitions requires compromise, patience, forbearance.
Social media is the space where much political organizing happens these days.
Social media fosters the exact opposite of compromise, patience, and forbearance.
Thanks for coming to my depressing-as-hell Ted Talk.
That said, "social media" is an ever changing thing that is not homogenous. It contains multitudes. It is not inevitable that "social media" will contribute to the collapse of democratic polities (such as they exist today).
But I think it's also important for people who care about democracy to be out doing things in the world besides posting online (he says on Twitter, I know, I know). There's no substitute for real-world, in person organizing.
But that doesn't mean we should stop thinking about how we can make social media technology more democracy-sustaining and less democracy-corroding.
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