film-tv-event producer & director, believes eastern europe is, against all odds, the place to be
…gin with. Perhaps, beneath Kakutani’s focus on post-truth and recursive media narratives is instead the weakening or erosion within Western democracies — at least here in the UK — of the notion of the public sphere. A shared space where publicity and plurality are recognised and celebrated. A place which nurtures…
Meanwhile, all our debates over politics take place on non-neutral, private territory. Private companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google now have the power to shape democratic discourse on the whims of their technical and commercial schemes, directing floods of millions of people, and their traffic, with as much subtlety or tyranny as they please — all to secure advertising revenue. Facebook’s advertising algorithm played a part in Trump’s victory, itself another consequence of a …