The People's Platform — When Participation Hides Concentrated Power
The Internet dramatically expanded our ability to publish, communicate, and create. But wider participation does not necessarily mean that ownership, compensation, or decision-making power have been distributed equally.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor as our lens, this investigation examines how the promise of digital democratization became intertwined with platform ownership, advertising, data extraction, and concentrated corporate power.
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