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Content That’s as Good as Contact? Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Promise of Depolarization at Scale
The document evaluates a 50-minute documentary showing cross-partisan dialogue as a cost-effective, scalable way to reduce affective polarization among Americans, increasing optimism and interest but not investment in depolarization activities.
bridgeentertainmentlabs.org
When the war ended, she didn’t go back to Leningrad. She kept going west, to a refugee camp in Frankfurt, and came to Canada on a DP boat. She was alone in her family in doing that. The rest of my family are still all in St. Petersburg, and they had a terrible life.
The reason that she left and they didn’t is because she was willing to give up ever... See more
The reason that she left and they didn’t is because she was willing to give up ever... See more
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Navigating the perils and promise of the digital age requires, according to author James Williams, that “we give the right sort of attention to the right sort of things... A major function, if not the primary purpose, of information technology should be to advance this end.”
Ronen Tamari • Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies
there is a fundamentally social aspect of attention that cannot and should not be automated. Shared attention is part of what makes us human. We care about what human peers and experts find interesting, not just what opaque algorithms recommend.
Ronen Tamari • Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies
CitizenPortal.ai - for Informed Citizens
citizenportal.ai
users submit short responses to a prompt. But rather than amplifying or responding to one another's comments, they simply vote these up or down. These votes are then clustered to highlight patterns of common attitudes which form what one might call user perspectives.
