Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
What replaces it is not yet clear. My students do not appear to be nihilists (which is remarkable to me for reasons I will get into in another essay). They are animated by other things. By place rather than displacement, by community rather than mobility, by the slow and the local rather than the far and the foreign. Whether this is the beginning... See more
The End Of Elsewhere: The Endangered Species of the Global Citizen
Bourdain is the figure (an avatar, really) where the lineage became a media product, where elsewhere stopped being a place the Western seeker went to and started being content the Western seeker consumed.
The End Of Elsewhere: The Endangered Species of the Global Citizen
The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, online belonging functions as a “convenient, friction-free alternative” where users can “enjoy the feeling of belonging without the heavy lifting of real-world connections.” The institutions that used to... See more
The End Of Elsewhere: The Endangered Species of the Global Citizen
The volunteer tourists inherited it from the backpackers and gave it a moral upgrade. Now you weren’t just searching for the authentic Other; you were helping them! The moral upgrade conveniently coincided with a period in which expressions of social conscience had become a powerful form of identity construction within precisely the demographics
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The reflex Rousseau articulated was not, fundamentally, about travel. It was about the location of the cure. Modernity is hollow; the cure exists wherever modernity has not yet reached; the seeker’s task is to go there, in whatever sense “going” is available to him. Rousseau’s elsewhere was conceptual, a primitive that lived more in argument than... See more
Protocol design is the art of defining which positions may be expressed, what rules may be defined (and, importantly, correctly and cheaply enforced), which information may be transmitted or on the contrary controlled, how positions can be assigned and withdrawn and, at least in the case of well-defined protocols, what constitutional options exist... See more
Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences
arxiv.orgAll about social networks and Social Platform Trust & Safety
on privacy preferences - “Privacy preferences are not fixed individual traits, they depend on context and lived experiences. In this study, we analyze 2,912 survey responses from 782 college students collected over seven survey periods during 2023 and 2024. We ask about their usage of social media, the security settings of their accounts, and measure their comfort in sharing personally identifiable information (PII) across 17 different institutional contexts. Compared to past research, we observe a large shift towards private accounts, going from 1/3rd private in 2007 to 2/3rds in 2024, and find that participants’ discomfort sharing PII with social media platforms strongly predicts their privacy settings. Beyond social media, we identify a stable ranking of institutional trust, though some institutions, like the police, show high variability reflecting divergent lived experiences. Traditionally marginalized groups and participants having faced adverse childhood experiences show more discomfort with institutions of power, especially in areas where they face greater vulnerability. We argue for context-adaptive privacy settings that recognize institutional relationships and demographic vulnerabilities, moving beyond one-size-fits-all consent frameworks toward contextually appropriate data governance.”