Sond: Smart phones, facebook news feeds are the new democratic surrounds. But you could actually say, are they democratic? Sond: When we have a symmetric power to shape people's thoughts and emotions and word choices, how do you do that? So i wat it. I want to separate your question into two parts. A one part is about how you design an environment, and the other is, howDo you find an ethos that you can serve?
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.