# Ancient Democracy For An Online World

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## Metadata
- Author: [[David Stasavage]]
- Full Title: Ancient Democracy For An Online World
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.noemamag.com/ancient-democracy-for-an-online-world/

## Highlights
- The optimists and the pessimists on internet democracy share a basic assumption: The internet is ushering in something radically new and different about how people relate to each other. Either it is warping users’ brains or it is realizing the long-elusive “global village.” Either it is supercharging protest movements or reinventing authoritarianism — or, for subtler observers, both at the same time.
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- “How we associate on apps and screens has consequences for what we expect from the halls of power.”
    - Tags: [[governance]] 
- Rather than simply replicating modern democracy, we have an opportunity to develop previously untried forms of democracy.