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cover of episode Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser

Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser

2020/12/23
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Your Undivided Attention

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You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser), co-director of Civic Signals), co-founder of Avaaz), and author of "The Filter Bubble)," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.