Won't You Be My Neighbor? A Civic Vision for the Internet — with Eli Pariser

You’ve heard us talk before on this podcast about the pitfalls of
trying to moderate a “global public square.” Our guest today, Eli
Pariser, co-director of Civic Signals, co-founder of Avaaz, and
author of "The Filter Bubble," has been thinking for years about
how to create more functional online spaces and is bringing
people together to solve that problem. He believes the answer
lies in creating spaces and groups intentionally, with the same
kinds of skilled support and infrastructure that we would enlist
in the physical world. It’s not enough to expect the big
revenue-oriented tech companies to transform their tools into
something less harmful; Eli is encouraging us to proactively
gather in our own spaces, optimized for togetherness and
cooperation.