Devorah Heitner
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2,393 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
Devorah Heitner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So like a Discord that's a moderated Discord at the local public library for kids to play Dungeons and Dragons on and everyone has to use their library card to log in.
It's gonna be a really different kind of space.
And it's not that your kid won't necessarily run into a troll or another kid in the community who isn't nice to them, like
It's a big bad world, and even kids who who go to your same library could be unkind.
But there's a huge level of accountability that you know that someone could get booted out of the group.
If someone comes in and is spewing hate or using racial slurs, they're probably gonna get booted out of that discord because it's moderated by a librarian who's checking it every day, and that behavior won't be tolerated.
And there's some consequences attached to acting in such a way where
Whereas if you're looking at
a sort of quote unquote regular Discord where there's nobody in charge or there's not a clear moderator in a known community the way there would be with like a library moderated server.
you're in a world where maybe anything goes or maybe maybe there's great in moderation, but if the moderator is also a high school kid, is that moderator gonna be on at three AM, you know, to deal with the situation?
Is that moderator going to be on during school hours?
You kinda hope not if that if if your kid's the moderator, I kinda hope they're taking off from eight to two to go to school or whatever.
There's a lot that's one click away.
And I think we need to just be in dialogue with our kids.
And this stuff hits our kids' lives just as developmentally they're pulling away from being in dialogue with us as much.
Yeah, I mean, I think I think it's really tricky.
I mean, I think kids doing this identity work online, you know, need to
be supported and need to need to have adults to kind of be a checks and balances in their life.
You know, and the sort of early days of the internet, there was a lot of sort of fantasy about like, oh, we can all have different identities online and this, you know, we're all be cyborgs and this is, you know, 20, 30 years ago, like even in the beginning of like when I started my PhD program in media studies in 2001, there was still a lot of sort of idealization of like,
The internet's gonna be this incredible place, it's gonna be like a feminist utopia because we won't have bodies, we'll just have our brains.
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