A starting point for discussion
The idea
The authors suggest that a feed could highlight content shared across several communities a person belongs to, such as religious, local, and political groups. They propose that this could strengthen shared context, common knowledge, and action together. Common knowledge means everyone knows something, everyone knows that everyone knows it, and so on.
Place in the reasoning
AI assessment · Connected to reasoning
Proposes highlighting content shared across a person’s communities as a possible way to support shared context and action.
Online discussion needs more than access to technology
This is a specific proposed feed design for connecting views across communities; it is a future possibility, not an established result.
People can find enough agreement to act while still disagreeing
The proposal links shared context across communities to common action without requiring those communities to hold one identical view.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
A feed might highlight content shared across more than one of a person’s communities. The authors suggest this could strengthen shared context and knowledge, including everyone’s awareness that the knowledge is shared, and help people act together across those groups.
Why it matters
This could connect parts of people’s social lives, but the chapter presents these effects as possibilities, not findings.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Complete Augmented Deliberation chapter from the book that is updated over time. Other chapters are not included. The authors describe this as a possible future use of bridging across groups at different scales. Addresses: Content shared across communities
Questions this connects to
AI-suggested relationships. Authors have not necessarily responded to one another.