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Articles by Jennifer Forestal

December 5, 2023

🎭 Democratic transformations require an eye for design

Jennifer Forestal
How should we understand recent transformations to the spaces of democratic action? Jennifer Forestal outlines the spatial characteristics required for democratic politics — and reminds us just how fragile those spaces are
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Jennifer Forestal
Helen Houlahan Rigali Assistant Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago

Jennifer has written and published on topics such as digital culture, platform design and governance, radicalisation and extremism, and democratic theory.

She has been a visiting faculty fellow at the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.

www.jenniferforestal.com

She tweets @seejenspeak

@seejenspeak.bsky.social

Designing for Democracy How to Build Community in Digital Environments Jennifer Forestal

Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments
Oxford University Press, 2023

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