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#Republic : Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media / Cass R. Sunstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 1 b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691180908
  • 9781400890521
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/33 23
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .S869 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. THE DAILY ME -- 2. AN ANALOGY AND AN IDEAL -- 3. POLARIZATION -- 4. CYBERCASCADES -- 5. SOCIAL GLUE AND SPREADING INFORMATION -- 6. CITIZENS -- 7. WHAT'S REGULATION? A PLEA -- 8. FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- 9. PROPOSALS -- 10. TERRORISM .COM -- 11. #REPUBLIC -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand one another. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic.In this revealing book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein shows how today's Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. He proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation, showing that #Republic need not be an ironic term. Rather, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies need most.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. THE DAILY ME -- 2. AN ANALOGY AND AN IDEAL -- 3. POLARIZATION -- 4. CYBERCASCADES -- 5. SOCIAL GLUE AND SPREADING INFORMATION -- 6. CITIZENS -- 7. WHAT'S REGULATION? A PLEA -- 8. FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- 9. PROPOSALS -- 10. TERRORISM .COM -- 11. #REPUBLIC -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy-and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand one another. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic.In this revealing book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein shows how today's Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. He proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation, showing that #Republic need not be an ironic term. Rather, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies need most.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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