Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication and Information, along with co-author Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci, recently published a new article in The Conversation titled "Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy." The piece provides a brief history of governance in online spaces, discussing the early days of community moderation to the later corporate drive for centralization in search for efficiency and power. Zuckerman and Rajendra-Nicolucci then discuss opportunities for increased community governance and argue that "going forward by going back" could help solve the crisis of moderation in our virtual spaces.
Read the article at The Conversation.