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CITP Seminar: Ethan Zuckerman – The Good Web: Competing Visions for the Future of Social Media Between the US Capitol Insurrection – broadcast and organized online – and Frances Haugen’s revelations about the inner workings of Facebook, 2021 was a rough year for social media. Many social media observers – including legislators concluded that tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were harming individuals and society and needed regulation. But there are others reimagining social media as a whole, proposing new architectures designed to address the shortcomings of existing platforms and encourage new forms of interaction online. This talk examines four different models for the future of social media, including blockchain-based web3 models and decentralized open source models, and the ideologies animating each vision of the future. Bio: Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a

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