S8E5—Does Twitter Survive 2023? A Birdseye View Of The “Public Square”
Update: 2023-01-03
Description
Who hasn’t heard about Twitter these days? With all the controversy, Adam & Chris are talking about how private tech becomes a “public square”—and does Twitter have a future in 2023?
Big Questions
- What is “free speech”?
- What is the idea of the public square and how does it relate?
- How has the long history of communications technology been controlled by the rich or the royal?
- Who owned the most powerful communications network in the middle ages?
- How should Christians speak and interact in the public square?
- Should Adam & Chris delete the Device & Virtue Twitter account?
Links
- A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (NBC)
- We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter (MIT Technology Review)
Beyond the Public Square: Imagining Digital Democracy by Mary Ann Franks (Yale Law Journal)
Dramatic Tweets
- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg
- https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg
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