List of Text/video commentaries

Video 1 - The dangers of a single story : https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en

Video 2 – How the news distorts our worldview : https://www.ted.com/talks/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news

Video 3 - How not to be ignorant about the world : https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world?referrer=playlist-the_best_hans_rosling_talks_yo

Text 1 – Cass Sunstein, « In praise of serendipity »

Video  4 – Women should represent women in the media :
https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_kamerick_women_should_represent_women_in_media

Video 5 – Beware of filter bubbles :
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles

Articles to read if you want to dig further on Internet and democracy :
https://booksandideas.net/The-Internet-and-its-Democratic.html

https://booksandideas.net/Is-the-Internet-an-instrument-of.html

Bruce Ackerman’s proposal to save investigative journalism (mentioned briefly in class) : https://books.openedition.org/pucl/1768

Video 6: https://www.ted.com/talks/yasheng_huang#t-1112302

2nd round of texts :

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/why-elections-are-bad-for-democracy

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/china-politics-communism-democracy/412663/

Optional reading on democracy :
https://booksandideas.net/Is-representative-democracy-really-democratic.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-the-new-machine

https://booksandideas.net/The-Slow-Triumph-of-the-Majority.html

https://booksandideas.net/Democratic-Universalism-as-a.html

https://booksandideas.net/A-Reflection-on-Populism.html

Reflection of truth and facts
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts

more on Internet and social media vs. mainstream media reliability :
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook