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Designing for Democracy - How to Build Community in Digital Environments (Hardcover)
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Designing for Democracy - How to Build Community in Digital Environments (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
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How should we "fix" digital technologies to support democracy
instead of undermining it? In Designing for Democracy, Jennifer
Forestal argues that accurately evaluating the democratic potential
of digital spaces means studying how the built environment—a
primary component of our "modern public square"—structures our
activity, shapes our attitudes, and supports the kinds of
relationships and behaviors democracy requires. While many scholars
and practitioners are attentive to the role of design in shaping
behavior, they have yet to fully engage with the question of what
structures are required to support democratic communities—and how
to build them. Forestal closes this gap by providing a new theory
of democratic space. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines,
including architecture, psychology, and the history of political
thought, she argues that "democratic spaces" must be designed with
three environmental characteristics—boundaries, durability, and
flexibility—that, taken together, afford users the ability to
engage in fundamental civic practices. Through extended analyses of
Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, Forestal shows precisely how well
these digital platforms meet the criteria for democratic spaces, or
whether they do so at all. The result is a more nuanced analysis of
the democratic communities that form—or fail to emerge—in these
spaces, as well as more concrete suggestions for how to improve
them. In connecting the built environment, digital technologies,
and democratic theory, Designing for Democracy provides blueprints
for democracy in a digital age.
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