Dan Hind is the author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty and The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform. The paperback of The Return of the Public is out now on Verso. He tweets @danhind.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAnother media regime is possibleFrom the liberal public sphere to the information commons.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe people we might become: Personality and the organisation of knowledgeThe media has sold us collective hallucinations of ourselves, from Keynesian man to Thatcherite man (and woman). Can...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEntering the secret castle: A small step towards democratic public media?Last week the BBC gave a representative audience panel control of its Brexit output for one day. Could this...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe constitutional turn: liberty and the co-operative stateThe Anglo-American left needs to start taking constitutional change seriously.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe choice before the Labour partyDoes Labour wish to fight for a better deal within the system, or change the system?
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Published in: ourBeebA roadmap for the BBC’s support of local journalismInstead of strengthening the UK’s local news monopolies, here’s how the BBC could support civic journalism.