What a time to think outside the nation-state, as North Korea taunts “American bastards” with intercontinental ballistic missiles; as the Trump administration escalates immigration arrests to an unprecedented rate; as migrants and refugees pour into Central and Eastern Europe; as the United Kingdom trudges towards Brexit. It is a time...
Election season has just erupted in the U.K. with all the shock and surprise of finding that Christmas has been rescheduled from its normal position in the annual cycle to the day after tomorrow. It feels really weird and sort-of-impossible, but Santa Claus has made it very clear that you’ve...
New Media was dead, but a corpse called “Digital” rose to take its place. It was bloodless, technocratic, and made of big data.
Yes, the Clinton campaign struggled with messaging; that doesn’t mean we should throw away everything we’ve learned about how data can make campaigns more effective.
While we try to understand the lessons of 2016, it is time to deal with a key missing element in the conversation on the future of Democratic technology: the voices of people who are not straight, white men.
You make and break dates by text, order fast food, craft spirits, and nearly anything else you can think of by text—now you can register to vote by text, too. As part of a get-out-the-vote campaign, the Fight for the Future Education Fund built a chatbot called HelloVote that can...
Citing examples from international and U.S. debates, Civic Hall’s Rethinking Debates project looks at technologies and platforms that have the potential to transform political discourse and make debates more responsive to voters' needs and concerns.
The election debate between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten led to an unprecedented amount of public participation - and exposed limitations on technology and format.
The most interesting tech news to come out of the Democratic convention so far is the launch of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s new mobile app. The campaign’s digital director, Jenna Lowenstein, describes it as “a field office in your pocket.” Designed to give people in non-battleground states concrete actions they...
An interview with Tiana Epps-Johnson from the Center for Technology and Civic Life on using community-driven tools to improve election processes.