Gisel Sánchez

The solutions journalism people should be sending this article to all potential funders, because the problem they’re trying to address shows up crystal clear here: News about big problems is depressing if I’m not presented with potential solutions. Regular news consumption can engender a kind of learned helplessness that make clear the appeal of id

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“I am impressed how educational technology has had no effect on scale, on reading outcomes, on reading difficulties, on equity issues,” he told the New York audience.

Most of the signups for the newsletter came through stories on the Guardian’s website. The top ones to convince readers to hand over their email address include the “one life” article that caught my eye, a launch piece with data on screen time, a feature on a Massachusetts school that banned smartphones, and a follow-up piece featuring readers who ... See more

Debemos concebir un futuro tan irresistible que despierte en la gente el deseo de hacerlo realidad: un mundo basado en la dignidad, la justicia, la igualdad, la libertad y la coexistencia. Como nos recuerdan Judith Butler y Byung-Chul Han, la imaginación y la esperanza no son ideales ingenuos; son compromisos poderosos y activos que despiertan el d... See more

I’m reminded of what happened in the 1970s when the hippies — bruised and bloodied from the culture wars of the ‘60s — retreated into self-help, wellness, and personal development, as Adam Curtis documents in his series The Century of Self . While they turned inward, the winners of the ‘60s culture wars took society’s reigns. A focus on personal we... See more

This is the Bowling Alley Theory of the Internet: that people are online purely to meet each other, and in the long run the venues where we congregate are an unimportant background compared to the interactions themselves. Did we meet on MySpace, Tinder, or LinkedIn? Does it matter?

In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.

This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the... See more

Within that framework of design changes, we're coming to conclusions that those that provide people choice and information and autonomy will be more successful than ones that filter or just work through algorithms or just work on the back end.

We're really open to trying to understand the ways in which platforms can be designed, that will simultaneously promote people being more civil with each other, while reducing the things that platforms seem to be more concerned with, which is getting rid of hate speech and harassment and bullying and misinformation.

Researchers’ findings suggest X made ‘platform-level’ changes to boost Musk and other conservatives’ posts when he endorsed Donald Trump.