Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Perhaps this partly helps explain the sense of anger often seen among rural Americas. They have less local news — and don’t see themselves in their own media. Only 41% of those in rural areas said the local media mostly covered their communities; by contrast, 62% of urbanites said the local news had them covered. It’s likely that the decline of... See more
How high school sports coverage can save democracy - Poynter
Better Questions than “Any Questions?”
grouphug.substack.com
Facilitation, Meeting, & Gathering
What’s one word on your mind right now?
What’s an idea that jumped out at you from what you just heard?
What did this remind you of?
Share one way you might make this better.
On a scale of 1 to 5, how confident/excited/clear are you on what you just heard?
Raise your hand if you felt ____ about this. Raise your hand if you felt _____ about this. (Bonus points: can pick on a person to go deeper after that.)
Turn to someone next to you and share what’s on your mind.
Who did this make you think of in your life, either because it reminded you of them or you’d like to share it with them?
What would you need to start using/trying/applying this tomorrow?
What was your honest first impression when you heard about what we’d be talking about today? How did that change or not?
What questions do you have for [Name of person speaking]?
What’s a wish you have for this work going forward?
Let’s enter a No Dumb Questions zone: what’s a question on your mind that might feel silly or random or obvious?
Offer thanks or gratitude for what you just heard.
Who in your life would be skeptical about this? Why?
What fear is coming up for you right now?
Turn to the person next to you and explain your understanding of what you just heard. Then switch.
I would love to get at least three questions from the group before we break.
What was the most confusing/wild/inspiring/exciting part of what you just heard?
What was missing from what you just heard?
Incentives for productive speech: A speech community is likely to produce whatever kind of discourse it incentivizes. This means that users should have formal or informal incentives to produce speech that is recognized by other users as worthy.
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such... See more
A scholarly culture that reads and discusses enduringly great works incentivizes the production of such... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Social Platform Trust & Safety
reputation / karma systems
“Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.”
“People will be accountable and committed to what they have a hand in
Thriving places don’t have purposes and missions, but they’re not hostile to them. They are somewhere between benignly indifferent to mildly (but not over-eagerly) welcoming towards missionary energies. Think of storied city like New York or Rome or Bangkok. These are places that catalyze mission-driven activities of various sorts, but don’t... See more
Mission vs creating the conditions
Platforms like GoFundMe, reddit grief communities, mutual aid networks, real-time disaster storytelling, and global uprisings in reaction to systemic inequality are demonstrative, real world examples that connectivity breeds empathy and unity. The work of Taiwan’s digital minister Audrey Tang during the COVID-19 pandemic — quickly using the... See more
"Our work is the most valuable where we're creating a discourse that isn't just informing people, but actually getting them involved with the creation of good information — because they value good information themselves and are part of a community that values that," he said.
The resulting problems are not primarily problems of disinformation, though disinformation plays some role. They are the problems you get when large swathes of the public sphere are exclusively owned by wannabe God-Emperors. Elon Musk owns X/Twitter outright. Mark Zuckerberg controls Meta through a system in which he is CEO, chairman and effective... See more