{"id":10231,"date":"2021-06-22T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=10231"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:32:16","slug":"one-council-to-rule-them-all-can-social-media-become-more-democratic","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/one-council-to-rule-them-all-can-social-media-become-more-democratic\/","title":{"rendered":"One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"description\">In their article on the Digital Society Blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/martin-fertmann\">Martin Fertmann<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/matthias-c-kettemann\">Matthias C. Kettemann<\/a> explain how social media councils can contribute to making platforms more democratic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiig.de\/en\/one-council-to-rule-them-all-can-social-media-become-more-democratic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the article here (online)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fertmann, M.; Kettemann, M. C. (2021): One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic?. Digital Society Blog, 22 June 2021, doi: 10.5281\/zenodo.4773130.<\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Parliaments set the rules for democracies. Platforms rule their private online spaces. But as online spaces become ever more important for democratic discourse, we ask ourselves: Can we make platforms more democratic? We believe Social Media Councils may be the solution to make platform rule-making and rule-enforcement more accountable, transparent, and legitimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10231","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic? - Leibniz-Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung Hans-Bredow-Institut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/one-council-to-rule-them-all-can-social-media-become-more-democratic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Council to Rule Them All: Can Social Media Become More Democratic?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In their article on the Digital Society Blog, Martin Fertmann and Matthias C. 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