arXiv cs.CY· Fan Cheng, Amirhossein Farzmahdi, Pinyuan Feng, Kedar Garz\'on Gupta, Trenton Jerde, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Zi Qi Liow, Akihito Maruya, Savannah Smith, Patrick Stinson, JohnMark Taylor·· 9 天前AI 评分24
如何改进社交媒体以支持民主话语：一份模块化机制白皮书
Improving social media for democratic discourse
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一篇55页白皮书提出了一套可单独或组合实施的模块化机制，用于将社交媒体从以参与度和广告收入为核心转向支持民主话语与集体审议。机制包括用户可控的开放推荐系统、多元观点曝光工具、认知与认识论反馈、协作及AI辅助的事实核查、隐私与可见性控制、文明与证据完整性机制，以及奖励高质量参与的声誉系统。作者称这些提案既是设计选项的实用菜单，也是围绕民主价值而非单纯参与度设计数字公共空间的跨学科讨论起点。
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Authors:Fan Cheng, Amirhossein Farzmahdi, Pinyuan Feng, Kedar Garzón Gupta, Trenton Jerde, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Zi Qi Liow, Akihito Maruya, Savannah Smith, Patrick Stinson, JohnMark Taylor
Abstract:Social media have expanded opportunities for communication and political participation, but today's dominant platforms are optimized primarily for engagement and advertising revenue, contributing to concerns about polarization, misinformation, social isolation, and loss of civility. We explore how social media might instead be deliberately designed to support democratic discourse, collective deliberation, and collective intelligence. Drawing on literature across computer science, psychology, political science, and related fields, we present a modular collection of mechanisms that could be implemented individually or in combination. These include user-controlled and open recommender systems, tools for exposure to diverse perspectives, new forms of cognitive and epistemic feedback, collaborative and AI-assisted fact-checking, privacy and visibility controls, mechanisms for improving civility and evidentiary integrity, and reputation systems that reward high-quality participation. The proposals are intended both as a practical menu of design possibilities and as a starting point for broader interdisciplinary discussion about digital public spaces designed around democratic values rather than engagement alone.
| Comments: | 55 pages. White paper presenting a modular set of mechanisms for designing social media to support democratic discourse |
| Subjects: | Computers and Society (cs.CY); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2610.10816 [cs.CY] |
| (or arXiv:2610.10816v1 [cs.CY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.10816 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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From: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte [view email]
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来源：arXiv cs.CY · arxiv.org