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.
The Next Great Experiment
Technology is changing the way people think about—and participate in—democratic society. What does that mean for democracy? | By Adrienne LaFrance, Irina Raicu, and Eric Goldman
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