The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“Taylor is the Marshall McLuhan or the Neil Postman of our new digital economy, the lonely voice raising urgent questions we wish to answer together . . . If The People’s Platform doesn’t spark the conversation about the type of democracy and culture we deserve, then we’re going to deserve the one we get.”―NY1 News’ The Book Reader

The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, a place where all can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People’s Platform argues that the Internet in reality amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have a number of both. A handful of giant companies remain the gatekeepers, even as the worst habits of the old media model―the pressure to searching for easy celebrity, to be quick and sensational above all―have proliferated in the ad-driven system.
We will be able to do better, Astra Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports work of lasting value will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the Internet to in reality be a people’s platform, we will be able to have to make it so.

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