Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Over the last 50 years, people have shifted away from meeting and volunteering regularly in associations and informal gatherings such as support groups and Bible study groups, choosing instead to engage through “checkbook participation,” where we outsource and pay local and national organizations who hire professional staff to do the good works and... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Moreover, the size of the average person’s social network decreased by one-third in the same time.2 In fact, more people say that they don’t have a confidante than those who say that they do.3 Americans, particularly those under thirty, are not participating in formal religious organizations as much as people did even a generation ago.