What Are the Kind of Spaces That Work Well?

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After seeing the social everyone wants, is hungry for solutions. They want to say, what ar the alternative? I want to switch my kids to a different platform. We've been living inside of these commodified spaces for so long that we've forgotten how to re imagine, dream big. Therere just so many aspects of our social space that i think what you're trying to show is that there's a fertile ground of infinite alternative possibility. If you're interested in coming to the new blic festival, you can join us at new public dot org slash festival. It's open to everybody and it's free to attend. The participatory tear was going to fill up quickly, but everybody

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and cooperation.