{"id":108958,"date":"2024-03-28T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=activity_engagement&#038;p=108958"},"modified":"2024-04-11T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T17:43:57","slug":"book-symposium-the-networked-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"activity_engagement","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/engagements\/book-symposium-the-networked-leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Symposium on \u201cThe Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms&#8221; by Professor Paul Gowder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Boston University School of Law on Friday, April 5 for a book symposium featuring <span>Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Professor Paul Gowder on his recent book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/networked-leviathan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms<\/a>.\u201d The symposium will be held in classroom 211 from 3:00\u20134:30pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>Stacey Dogan, Boston University School of Law<br \/>\nAndrew Sellars, Boston University School of Law<br \/>\nKatharine Silbaugh, Boston University School of Law<br \/>\nJessica Silbey, Boston University School of Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paul Gowder\u2019s <em>The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms <\/em>explores how platform companies have failed at internet governance, leading to a proliferation of disasters like foreign election interference, vaccine misinformation, counterfeiting, and even genocide.\u00a0 These governance problems stem not from malice but from companies&#8217; inability to manage the complexity of their userbases and products and of their own incentives under the eyes of conflicting internal and external constituencies.\u00a0 <em>The Networked Leviathan <\/em>draws upon the knowledge of political scientists, constitutional theorists, and other scholars of governance who have for centuries studied the efforts of states to govern under complexity. The insights from this research counsel that governments and companies should collaborate to build democratic institutions for platform governance. By permitting ordinary people from across the world to participate in the governance enterprise, we allow those with the knowledge critical to making and applying platform rules to deploy that knowledge where it can make an impact. Democratic governance also allows companies to recruit third parties to help manage their own capacity to make and stick to decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Boston University School of Law on Friday, April 5 for a book symposium featuring Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Professor Paul Gowder on his recent book \u201cThe Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms.\u201d The symposium will be held in classroom 211 from 3:00\u20134:30pm.\u00a0 Panelists:\u00a0 Stacey Dogan, Boston University School of Law Andrew Sellars, Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20326,"featured_media":0,"template":"","engagement_topic":[],"engagement_status":[3977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/108958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity_engagement"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/108958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108967,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_engagement\/108958\/revisions\/108967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"engagement_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_topic?post=108958"},{"taxonomy":"engagement_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/engagement_status?post=108958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}