Defending democracy in the age of social media
We must reimagine the civic sphere as a pluralist space with both online and offline states—which often blend and sometimes become indiscernible from one another.
David Moscrop was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa where he studied digital media and democracy. His book, Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones, is available from Goose Lane Editions.
We must reimagine the civic sphere as a pluralist space with both online and offline states—which often blend and sometimes become indiscernible from one another.