Looking back at topic-based social networks may offer one way forward for social media, argues Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci in a post for The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
“Subcultural communities online have been connecting people of all different stripes since the earliest days of the internet. These interest-based communities may actually support some of the utopian proclamations about the internet leading to a new age of human connection and development.”