Eric Gordon on Valuing the Inefficiencies of Civic Life
A discussion of play, meaning, smart cities and civic life with Eric Gordon, professor and director of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College.
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To Fight Police Violence, Demand Digital Sanctuary
I will harbor you. The question you must answer is - will you harbor me?
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Systemic Problems, Incremental Solutions: Lessons from the Knight-Civic Hall Symposium
Dave Algoso, a consultant in the global development and social change sectors, attended the Knight-Civic Hall Symposium on Wednesday and here offers his observations on the lessons of the day. Every few decades, we face a deep challenge to the idea of American exceptionalism. There are injustices large and small...
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How Civic Activists Counter Fake News in Taiwan
More than 17,000 people have installed an extension created by civic activists in Taiwan to counter fake news on social media.
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Schrodinger’s Audience: How News Analytics Handed America Trump
Trump’s media dominance isn’t just driven by our attention, it’s driven by the media industry’s new tools for measuring and responding to that attention.
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Making America Super Again
Our civic imagination fellow Andrew Slack reflects on what it really means to do cultural acupuncture, and what to do when a campaign doesn't take.
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Why We Need a Civic Imagination
The crisis in civics is a crisis in agency. The solution is more efforts to revive and expand our civic imagination.
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Parsing Upworthy’s Big Pivot
Equating Upworthy with clickbait has always obscured the real secret to their success: the company is among the web’s most deft practitioners of sophisticated analytics.