A starting point for discussion
The idea
The authors propose adapting Community Notes to map several communities and use connections between them to help choose which social media content receives attention. They say this approach could be used across groups of different sizes and among groups that overlap, not only across a whole platform.
Place in the reasoning
AI assessment · Connected to reasoning
Imagines adapting Community Notes to map multiple, intersecting communities and guide attention through bridging; this is a proposed future approach, not a demonstrated feature.
Online discussion needs more than access to technology
Develops the narrative’s digital-bridging theme by proposing attention selection across communities and scales, while remaining speculative.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
The proposal goes beyond ranking notes along one line of opinion. It imagines mapping several communities and using whether content connects them to help decide what receives attention. The authors say this could be done with groups of different sizes and with groups that overlap.
Why it matters
If developed, this could change how platforms decide what to highlight across different communities and group sizes. The excerpt does not establish how to map communities or assess the effects.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Complete Augmented Deliberation chapter from the book that is updated over time. Other chapters are not included. The chapter describes this as an imagined future approach, not a feature already shown to work. It also says that connecting communities could be tried with groups of different sizes and with groups that overlap. Addresses: Social media content and attention
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