The Design Principle of Any Media Environment Is Not Doing Its Job

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The tech world has pushed against politics for a very long time, partly because washington doesn't really understand a lot of the tech. But they do it partly to serve users and partly to serve their advertisers. Who speaks for the public that's the question exactly? And ironically, in particulyr here in california, the sort of hyper individualist west, but across america, many people are reluctant to answer the government.

In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.