{"id":2514,"date":"2019-02-09T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T11:56:43","slug":"essay-machine-politics-by-fred-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/essay-machine-politics-by-fred-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/01\/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization\/\">harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/01\/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>harpers.org<br \/>\n<strong>\u00ab\u00a0[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Fred Turner<br \/>\n32-41 minutes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip,\u201d Ronald Reagan said in 1989. He was speaking to a thousand British notables in London\u2019s historic Guildhall, several months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Reagan proclaimed that the world was on the precipice of \u201ca new era in human history,\u201d one that would bring \u201cpeace and freedom for all.\u201d Communism was crumbling, just as fascism had before it. Liberal democracies would soon encircle the globe, thanks to the innovations of Silicon Valley.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0At the time, most everyone thought Reagan was right. The twentieth century had been dominated by media that delivered the same material to millions of people at the same time\u2014radio and newspapers, movies and television. These were the kinds of one-to-many, top-down mass media that Orwell\u2019s Big Brother had used to stay in power. Now, however, Americans were catching sight of the internet.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0One of the deepest ironies of our current situation is that the modes of communication that enable today\u2019s authoritarians were first dreamed up to defeat them. The same technologies that were meant to level the political playing field have brought troll farms and Russian bots to corrupt our elections.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>harpers.org\/archive\/2019\/01\/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization\/ harpers.org \u00ab\u00a0[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner By Fred Turner 32-41 minutes \u201cThe Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip,\u201d Ronald Reagan said in 1989. He was speaking to a thousand British notables in London\u2019s historic Guildhall, several months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Reagan proclaimed &#8230; <a title=\"[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/2019\/02\/09\/essay-machine-politics-by-fred-turner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about [Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ALXt-Ey","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}