David Foster
@KnowTheSystem
Know The System, Inc. is out to fix public discourse and undermine polarization through media reform and citizen education.
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To educate students about media and polarization, new approaches that combine e-learning with gen-AI coaching will make a difference. Try out this demonstration: mediainsight.scalablelearning.net passcode: twtr42 No registration required. Pls share! #polarization #media
Final installment! I tried to put it into context given the re-election of Donald Trump and his newly appointed FCC head, Brendan Carr. #BrendanCarr #Media #Polarization allsides.com/blog/who-will-…
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The Leaders Who Will Launch Media Reform
Brendan Carr promises to dismantle the tech and mainstream media cartels, and has even teased the idea of revoking NBC’s license. So as to eliminate wokeness, to compel free speech on tech platforms,...
Check out my series on AllSides, about ambitious solutions to our dysfunctional public discourse. (Link is to my website, which has a user-friendly list of links to all the articles so far.) knowthesystem.org/my-series-on-a…
The news media let us down during the past year. Well...I guess they do every year. My next series article proposes drastic changes to the Fourth Estate. On AllSides Perspective. @AllSidesNow allsides.com/blog/proposal-…
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Proposal #5: Enough with the Horse Race Already
The accelerated pace of content output, along with the decreasing number of journalists, has resulted in what Dean Starkman called the “Hamster Wheel,” where quantity replaces quality, and many...
My next article is about an initiative to provide a new educational resource for the citizenry, that citizens on both sides will actually want to go to. allsides.com/blog/proposal-… Why now? Two reasons. The first, certainly, is because the societal disruption of social media,…
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Proposal #3: A Learning Resource that Average Citizens Can’t Resist
I am proposing a huge, costly new imposition into the public sphere: interactive educational materials about public matters for average citizens.
My next article is about an initiative to tame social media. (You heard me.) A rather paternalistic approach (maternalistic?) of getting on social media and publicly, gently chiding divisive rhetoric. The Schoolmarm! It is the 5th installment of my series on fixing public…
Here, finally, is my first national proposal. A constitutional, technically-feasible way of injecting counterspeech into major political media platforms. I call it "Bust Open the Silos." #polarization #media #democracy @AllSidesNow allsides.com/blog/proposal-…
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Proposal #1: Bust Open the Silos
There is a technically feasible opportunity that has not yet been exploited: bringing counterspeech right into the echo chamber.
And here is the third article. My next articles in the series will detail major proposals for fixing public discourse in the US. allsides.com/blog/pushing-m…
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Pushing Media Policy Out of its Rut
A few key facts about the First Amendment, and the gulf standing between that reality and the popular free speech ideology. The analysis may serve to illuminate ways to provide an “assist” to...
My second and third articles on AllSides are about the obstacles to media reform posed by corporate impunity and by perverse ideological stances towards the First Amendment. Here's the second. allsides.com/blog/democrati…
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Democratic Discourse and the Impunity of Media and Tech Corporations
To deal with our systemically-deranged public discourse—brought about by the changes to the national information environment of the last three decades—solutions are needed that match the scale of the...
I'm publishing a series of articles based on my book. (Thanks, AllSides!) Here is the first in the series, just out. allsides.com/blog/brawny-so… @AllSidesNow
New blog post, reviewing "Democracy When The People Are Thinking" by the iconic James Fishkin. It's challenging, unfortunately, to imagine deliberative events making a serious difference in our era of cheap speech. @StanfordCDDRL #deliberation knowthesystem.org/fishkin-and-na…
Check out my new book. It details seven national proposals, together aimed at taming our media environment and fixing public discourse. (hint: entire Introduction is visible in Read Sample) #polarization #media #socialmedia amazon.com/dp/B0CV9D37CQ
New blog post, reviewing "Communicating the Future" by Lance Bennett. Important communication strategies for a Green New Deal, learning from the way neoliberalism was developed and promoted prior to the 1980s. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction @LanceBennett1 knowthesystem.org/a-different-st…
This polemic by @bariweiss ("End DEI") has gotten lots of attention. I found, though, that it was easier to understand if I appended "Because I said so" to the end of each paragraph. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
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