{"597025":{"#nid":"597025","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Silicon Valley Isn\u2019t Just Disrupting Democracy \u2014 It\u2019s Replacing It","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost, professor in The School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in the \u003Cem\u003EQuartz\u003C\/em\u003E October 3 article \u0026ldquo;Silicon Valley isn\u0026rsquo;t just disrupting democracy \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s replacing it.\u0026rdquo; The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you want to understand the threat that Silicon Valley poses to culture at large, consider Apple\u0026rsquo;s $5 billion headquarters. The Cupertino, California, building may seem like paradise to some, with striking architecture\u0026mdash;a donut-shaped building featuring the world\u0026rsquo;s largest piece of curved glass\u0026mdash;and lavish details like iPhone-inspired elevator buttons and patented pizza boxes that prevent soggy crusts\u0026hellip; Ian Bogost (\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E) at The Atlantic reports: Instead of stores, they would become \u0026ldquo;town squares, because they are gathering places.\u0026rdquo; She\u0026rsquo;s creating \u0026ldquo;plazas\u0026rdquo; in Apple\u0026rsquo;s largest stores, adding \u0026ldquo;boardrooms\u0026rdquo; for entrepreneurs, and recasting aisles as \u0026ldquo;avenues,\u0026rdquo; which are \u0026ldquo;like shop windows around a town square.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the entire article \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qz.com\/1092329\/mark-zuckerberg-and-elon-musks-quest-to-turn-the-whole-world-into-a-private-utopia-for-silicon-valley\/\u0022\u003ESilicon Valley isn\u0026rsquo;t just disrupting democracy \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s replacing it\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rdquo; visit the \u003Cem\u003EQuartz \u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2017-10-05 21:09:38","changed_gmt":"2017-10-16 15:03:55","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"memoirs","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/qz.com\/1092329\/mark-zuckerberg-and-elon-musks-quest-to-turn-the-whole-world-into-a-private-utopia-for-silicon-valley\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"594940":{"id":"594940","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1503584868","gmt_created":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","changed":"1503584868","gmt_changed":"2017-08-24 14:27:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226734","name":"Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66318,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Preferred1_edited_300x300.jpg?itok=Ng8OKs2w"}}},"media_ids":["594940"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167355","name":"silicon"},{"id":"9981","name":"valley"},{"id":"2895","name":"Apple"},{"id":"6521","name":"pizza"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}