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Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats

  • Written by Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
imageIs your social media group a budding democracy or someone's fiefdom?John Trumbull's painting, Declaration of Independence, plus emoticons

I became newly worried about the state of democracy when, a few years ago, my mother was elected president of her neighborhood garden club.

Her election wasn’t my worry – far from it. At the time, I...

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