![]() ![]() What we’re looking for is social media that works on a different “logic” than Facebook, Twitter or Instagram do. ![]() Towards that goal, we’re working to map the social media space, understanding the possibilities of “alternative” social media-and we need your help. Our work on Digital Public Infrastructure is based on the idea that it’s possible to build very different social media which might strengthen us as a public, helping us be better friends, neighbors and civic actors. ![]() Because Facebook and Twitter are so prominent and are so widely amplified by mainstream media, we tend to assume that all social media operate in the same way and suffer from the same problems. These are worthwhile questions, but they reflect a key blind spot. Will they be flooded with disinformation seeking to sway public opinion? Will President Trump use Twitter to claim victory prematurely? Will militias, QAnon or any number of other movements grown on social media lead to political violence? In short, is social media harming us as a public, undermining our democracy? Note: Ethan Zuckerman is developing this idea over the next year as a visiting research scholar with the Knight Institute and, starting in January, as Director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Īs we head towards a pivotal US presidential election in early November, social media platforms are coming under scrutiny. A research project aimed at identifying the “logics” of social media ![]()
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