I'd say the commons isn't shared facts or a single public, it's shared practice. Publics will fragment regardless, what matters is whether they're doing verification and deliberation legibly, and whether that inquiry actually connects to accountability.

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It's really just Lippmann and Dewey in the 21st century information environment, and I believe we need a Deweyan approach of building public capacity for inquiry, not the Lippmannian expert layer telling insitutions what to tell the public, but the latter seems to be the default response.

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I think media gatekeeping is widely accepted in communication studies, in terms of journalists, editors, and producers select what information reaches the public. That was part of the 20th century system in part because of limited resources for gathering, verifying and distributing information.

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But I think there's two key things that have happened in the last 20 years that changes the information environment, one is the spread of social media means publics can now gather and distribute information for close to zero cost, and the role of verification has moved from institutions to publics

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