#OnlineLife
Online Governance: Six Case Studies
The software behind online community platforms encodes a governance model that represents a strikingly narrow set of governance possibilities focused on moderators and administrators. When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many members’ opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort.
By Howard Rheingold
https://hrheingold.medium.com/online-governance-six-case-studies-177bfbb3f541