Beyond Discourse Dumpster Fires
Last year some economists documented something both surprising and sensible about social media: many people would pay a lot to keep using their favorite platforms, and they would pay a lot if all those platforms could disappear for everyone. They describe today’s major social media as a “collective trap”: the traffic accident that people regret,…
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On October 18, 2023 the Applied Social Media Lab hosted the Future of the Internet Summit. We brought together leading academics and cutting-edge technologists for a frank conversation about how social media, generative AI, and other disruptive technologies both erode and support healthy democratic societies. The Summit also examined how tech companies (and individual tech…
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