Done Are good-faith communities possible on the internet anymore?

Done Are good-faith communities possible on the internet anymore?

Aug 7, 2020

Factors

  • Organised bad-faith actors
    • State backed troll farms
    • ideological group backed organised actors
  • Increased diversity of internet users
    • backgrounds
    • social norms
    • language
    • knowledge
  • Generational changes in social interaction norms
    • technological mediation, and there7s an multi-national corporated developed app for that, leaning to less developed social skills, and alientation, disconnection from own location, reigon. cant imagine actually calling a local business on the phone, and talking to a person..
  • Network effects??
    • like chain recations.. The bad faith actors creating situations were other groups create anti-community action even though the do not share the same goals a the bad-faith group.
  • Infulence of hegemonic battles in wider society
    • increased polerisation, antagonism, politicalisation of everyday life
    • identiry politics
  • Unequal
    • access to privacy and anonmyity
    • knowledge and skills in the used of tech
    • knowleged and skill in the use of new media
    • levels of organisation and focus
      • one side thinks this is a culture war
      • the other side isnt aware there is a war going on
    • levels of radicalized resoorting to violence