From the Golden Globes stage in December, at the height of the #MeToo moment, Oprah Winfrey delivered a speech that sounded downright presidential: “A new day is on the horizon,” she said. Soon after, #Oprah2020 began trending on social media platforms. Wearing black, watching the #GoldenGlobes, listening to President Oprah...
A discussion of play, meaning, smart cities and civic life with Eric Gordon, professor and director of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College.
I will harbor you. The question you must answer is - will you harbor me?
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 throughout...
More than 17,000 people have installed an extension created by civic activists in Taiwan to counter fake news on social media.
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.
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.
The crisis in civics is a crisis in agency. The solution is more efforts to revive and expand our civic imagination.
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.