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Define: power (digital society)
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The ability to influence or control people, events or resources.
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Four ways power is exercised online
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Setting defaults, controlling access, deciding visibility, holding information.
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Why are defaults the strongest lever?
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They need no enforcement and give nobody anything to object to, yet almost nobody changes them.
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Why is visibility pressure hard to challenge?
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A ranking drop removes a seller's customers without removing the seller — so the platform can truthfully say it banned nobody.
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