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I provide information on black tech advancements. | I spent 16 years on Twitter, and it's time to start over. | I'm also a music and K-drama fan. | Let's breathe fresh air together in this beautiful blue sky.
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blackstemglobal.bsky.social
Thank you for creating this list! It's an impressive and vital list.
November 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I'm also going to share this paper by Daniel Kriess and Shannon McGregor: "In contrast, we argue that polarization can only be seen as a central threat to democracy if inequality is ignored." I think "helping people get their material needs met" is important...

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A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms Daniel Kreiss https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2533-195X dkreiss@email.unc.edu and Shannon C McGregor https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3275-0397View all authors and affiliations Volume 26, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231161880 Abstract Platforms: places for polarization or power struggles? Polarization and struggles for equality and justice Platforms and polarization in new normative and conceptual focus Conclusion Funding ORCID iDs References Biographies PDF / ePub More Abstract Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast, we argue that polarization can only be seen as a central threat to democracy if inequality is ignored. The central theoretical claim of this piece is that political identities map more or less onto social groups, and groups are, in turn, located in social structures. As such, scholars must analyze groups as they are embedded in relations of power to meaningfully evaluate the democratic consequences of polarization. Groups struggling for equality, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, often cause polarization because they threaten the extant power and status of dominant groups. To develop a shared theoretical lens around polarization and its relationship with inequality, we take up the case of research on the role of platforms in polarization, showing how scholarship routinely lacks analysis of inequality.
November 6, 2024 at 10:27 PM