The Democracy Project
This collection of essays by scholars and technologists, which developed as a collaboration between the Ethics Center and The Atlantic magazine, traces the impact of technology on democracy and suggests ways in which technology can strengthen democratic practices and institutions.

Rethinking Ethics Training in Silicon Valley
By Irina Raicu

The Case for Standardized and Secure Voting Technology
By Dan Gillmor

What People Really Want From News Organizations
By Sally Lehrman

Why News Organizations Can't Go It Alone
By Jeff Jarvis

Podcasting Is the New Talk-Radio
By Juliette De Maeyer

How Bots and Humans Might Work Together to Stop Harassment
By Craig Newmark

Getting to Know Your Online Doppleganger
By Dan Rockmore

Corporate Surveillance Is Turning Human Workers Into Fungible Cogs
By Ifeoma Ajunwa

Gratitude for Invisible Systems
By Debbie Chachra

Democracy Has a Design Problem
By Whitney Quesenbery

Freeing Technology From the Pace of Bureaucracy
By Rebekah Monson

Protecting the Public Commons
By Alexander B. Howard

The Thinning Line Between Commercial and Government Surveillance
By Arvind Narayanan and Dillon Reisman

Broken Technology Hurts Democracy
By Meredith Broussard

Restoring the Public's Trust in American Journalism
By Mitchell Baker

How Platforms Are Poisoning Conversations
By Maeve Duggan

The Voting Technology We Really Need? Paper
By Lawrence Norden

Online Voting Won’t Save Democracy
By Bruce Schneier

Disentangling Democracy From Geography
By Alexis Lloyd

The Antidote to Authoritarianism
By Malkia A. Cyril

The Case for a Taxpayer-Supported Version of Facebook
By Ethan Zuckerman

Democracy Needs Storytellers
By Kawandeep Virdee

You Cannot Encrypt Your Face
By Alvaro M. Bedoya

When Internet Memes Infiltrate the Physical World
By An Xiao Mina

The Age of Misinformation
By Jonathan Zittrain

Lessons From Isaac Asimov's Multivac
By Shannon Vallor