In a new era of digital broadcasting, they cite the potential bundling of information, technology and human capital as having the capacity to undermine diversity and plurality.
To turn what we used to call "public airwaves" into private fiefs, to undermine diversity of opinion and -- in its anti-federalist homogenization of our varied culture -- to sweep aside local interests and community standards of taste.
Park, a member of the coalition's five-person steering committee, said that the organization considers the Blum-sponsored lawsuit part of an effort to undermine diversity more broadly.
In this metapopulation model there are two forces which generate diversity within each host: mutation and transmission; there are also two forces that undermine diversity: extinction and genetic drift.
Also, it strives to build a traveling community of young Jews whose members exercise mutual recognition, tolerance and trust, without undermining their diversity.
They want to talk about the various ways global corporations like Monsanto, AOL-Time Warner and McDonald's are undermining cultural diversity and destroying the viability of local communities.
Meanwhile, a group of Republican Senators has raised an alarm about "undermining the diversity of the Federal contracting base and lessening competitive pressure on larger Federal contractors".
I suppose that colleges have the right to ban their students from membership in certain groups as a condition of being registered students, but at the risk of undermining the "diversity" that leaders of higher education always assert that they favor.
Much more often, however, the algorithmic mechanisms that shape what is available to users of digital platforms are driven exclusively by an advertising logic that undermines diversity and reproduces the social capital of those with power.
In an age where colleges have added economic diversity to their pursuit of ethnic and regional diversity, does the national explosion of Advanced Placement courses actually undermine intellectual diversity on campus, which is at the heart of the college experience?
