If you are looking for a fresh and comprehensive analysis of how the Digital Age is transforming the civic arena, get yourself a copy of New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms’ new book, which is being released today. It’s based on their 2014 article in the Harvard Business Review,...
Since Trump's election, tech workers have shown unprecedented interest in political organizing—maybe even unionizing—but as efforts like Tech Solidarity show, it's going to take a while to see real impact.
Algorithms can easily reflect societal inequalities, but at least one company is trying to build a fair recommendation system.
Silicon Valley underwent a political awakening in 2017. Catherine Bracy and Derecka Mehrens are harnessing the political moment to engage tech workers and service workers in the fight for a more equal Bay Area.
Facebook strengthens our filter bubbles. So does Twitter. So does cable news. This has serious civic consequences. All three of these organizations are civic technologies regardless of whether they put profit or public interest first. The algorithms and business priorities of private institutions have shaped our civic reality and will...
Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and other social media giants will be remembered, not by their business successes, but by how well they tackle the problem of the filter bubble.
There is a story in the Quran about a group of Christians who escaped persecution by taking refuge in a cave. There they fell into a very long sleep which they thought only lasted a day or two. But it actually had lasted for centuries. When they woke they were...
After all, who would march under the banner ‘On the one hand, X, on the other hand, maybe not X’?
In a world where digital technology reigns supreme, freedom of speech should not depend on the whims of a few powerful corporations and government rules. Increasingly, it does. A delegation of right-wing activists will travel this week to Silicon Valley. They will be supplicants at the throne of Facebook, a...