The platform has to provide some capacity to synthesize the finely disparate and varied versions of …

Yochai Benkler — The Wealth Of Networks (Chap 6)

The platform has to provide some capacity to synthesize the finely disparate and varied versions of beliefs and positions held by actual individuals into articulated positions amenable for consideration and adoption in the formal political sphere and by a system of government, and to render them in ways that make them sufficiently salient in the overall mix of potential opinions to form a condensation point for collective action.

— Yochai Benkler, The Wealth Of Networks, Chap 6