Building solidarity without Big Tech? Moving beyond the problems of today’s digital platforms

Couldry, Nick ORCID: 0000-0001-8233-3287 and Gilbert, Jeremy (2023) Building solidarity without Big Tech? Moving beyond the problems of today’s digital platforms. Media@LSE (27 Mar 2023). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Today we spend much of our lives on digital platforms. But what has been the impact for political exchange and mobilisation? Algorithms that seek to polarise by amplifying inflammatory rhetoric and extreme views are undermining public debate and consensus-building. In advance of an LSE public event tomorrow (28 March) on “Digital Platforms and the Future of Political Solidarity,” Nick Couldry and Jeremy Gilbert ask: Can we imagine a different model, where digital spaces and media enhance solidarity rather than eroding it?

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology T Technology
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2023 14:45
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:39
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/118650

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