Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?
Works Referenced
Framing/Cross-cutting:
•
• Ethan
Zuckerman, Self-segregation on social networks
and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story,
EthanZuckerman.com, Published August 27, 2014,
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/08/27/selfsegregation-on-social-networks-and-the-implicationsfor-the-ferguson-mo-story/
igital News Report 2016, Reuters Institute for the Study
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of Journalism, http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/
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News
Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016, Pew
Research Center, http://www.journalism.org/2016/05/26/
news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2016/. See
also: http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/trust-andaccuracy/
• danah
boyd, Hacking the Attention Economy, Data
& Society, Published January 5, 2017, https://points.
datasociety.net/hacking-the-attention-economy9fa1daca7a37
•
How
Millennials Get News: Inside the habits of America’s
first digital generation, American Press Institute, 2015,
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/
reports/survey-research/millennials-news/
Stewart, Facebook Has 50 Minutes of Your Time
Each Day. It Wants More. The New York Times, Published
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business/facebook-bends-the-rules-of-audienceengagement-to-its-advantage.html
• danah
boyd, Why America is Self-Segregating, Data
& Society, Published January 5, 2017, https://points.
datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregatingd881a39273ab
• James
• Rowland
Manthorpe, It’s the attention economy, stupid,
Wired, Published November 9, 2016, http://www.wired.
co.uk/article/us-president-donald-trump-attentioneconomy
• Daniel
Nesbit, The New World of Online Political
Advertising (presentation, Stanford, 2015–16). Available
at: https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-new-worldof-online-political-advertising/
Persily, The Campaign Revolution Will
Not Be Televised, The American Interest, Published
October 10, 2015. See also: white papers from Nate
Persily’s practicum at Stanford Law School: https://
law.stanford.edu/education/only-at-sls/law-policy-lab/
practicums-2015-2016/campaign-reform-and-thefuture-of-political-communication/
• Joshua
Bleiberg and Darrell M. West, “Political
polarization on Facebook,” Brookings Institute, Published
May 13, 2015, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/
techtank/2015/05/13/political-polarization-on-facebook/
• Art
Swift, Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New
Low, Gallup, Published September 14, 2016, http://www.
gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-mediasinks-new-low.aspx
• Dirk
Helbing et al, Will Democracy Survive Big Data
and Artificial Intelligence? Scientific American, Published
February 25, 2017, https://www.scientificamerican.com/
article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificialintelligence/
• Nathaniel
• John
Danaher, The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance
and Accommodation, Philos. Technol. (2016) 29: 245.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-015-0211-1
Stroud, Attention as a Valuable Resource
(Unpublished)
• Jamie
Condliffe, Facebook Forbids the Use of User Data for
Surveillance, MIT Technology Review, Published March
14, 2017, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603855/
facebook-forbids-the-use-of-user-data-for-surveillance/
Interviews:
• Maria
•
Ressa, Rappler (Philippines). 2017
David Schraven, Correctiv (Germany). 2017
• Talia
• Joseph
S. Nye Jr., Will the Liberal Order Survive? Foreign
Affairs, January/February 2017. Available at https://www.
foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-12-12/will-liberal-ordersurvive
• Cass
Sunstein, #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age
of Social Media, Princeton University Press, 2017.
© Copyright The Omidyar Group 2017. All rights reserved.
Issue One: Echo chambers, polarization, and hyperpartisanship
• Ethan
Zuckerman, Self-segregation on social networks
and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story,
EthanZuckerman.com, Published August 27, 2014,
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2014/08/27/selfsegregation-on-social-networks-and-the-implicationsfor-the-ferguson-mo-story/ (repeat citation)
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