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Svensk version: Dags för hängslen och livrem – så stärker vi opinionsbildningen i samhället What would our democracy look like without journalism? There is no doubt that journalism has a crucial role in democracy. Journalism has an important role in holding power accountable in society. Journalists and media outlets are those who usually provide us the information we need to make well-informed decisions. And in a digital age, where there is an abundance of information and news sources, it is more important than ever to ensure that journalism is reliable and impartial. In just a few decades we have seen how technology have made it easier to spread false information. The development has also meant that public discourse can be more easily exposed to malign information. This development puts us at the risk of ending up in a dangerous downward spiral where people begin to lose trust in the media…

This text aims to describe possible ways forward after having been bound to digital platforms for over a decade. For this text to do its justice, I hope you read the first part, which describes the platform society of the last decade and how it developed to today. It probably makes this text easier to get onboard with. The public digital dialogue of today is not anymore governed based on the established practice and the traditions from which modern democracy sprang. The digital dialogue have come to leave behind large parts of the customs and traditions we see in the physical world. Instead, the terms of the dialogue, the rules of our conversations, are dictated by a few for-profit companies in their interests of their shareholders. The processes that constitutes the rules of a public meeting, or for that matter an informal conversation, are instead largely governed by algorithms that…

In recent years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about the digitalisation of society and in what ways the digital places we find ourselves in affect the way we live our lives and shape our societies. My thoughts with this text are to briefly describe the last decade’s platform society and how it has developed to today. The goal is to make a shorter time travel, which ends in our present. In a later text, my intention is to iterate out of this story to describe a possible way forward after the age of platforms. A path that focuses more on the needs of the individual and society, than on algorithms and business models. Just some years ago, Facebook was the dominant platform for most of society’s digital conversations. It was on Facebook that we wrote on each other’s walls, posted pictures and shared news with each other.…