Sam Liebeskind
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product partnerships at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Beginning the work of civic renewal in localities rather than at the national level is an easier lift in part because Americans have more trust in democracy the closer it is to them. Sixty-six percent of respondents in a 2022 Pew survey reported a favorable view of their local government, and 54 percent did of their state government, compared to... See more
Top Down Democratic Decline vs. Bottom Up Civic Renewal: Eight Working Hypotheses
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Quantitative experiments, sometimes including tens of millions of individuals, have examined inclusiveness and efficiency in decision-making via digital networks. Their findings suggest that large networks of nonexperts can make practical, productive decisions and engage in collective action under certain (1) conditions. (2) These conditions... See more
Alex Pentland • Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Participation — Digitalist Papers
Every notification ping holds the possibility we have merit. When we scroll, what are we looking for?
Thea Lim • The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications
Explores social network sites as networked publics, analyzing their architecture, dynamics, and implications, focusing on how technology reshapes social interactions and influences the negotiation of public and private boundaries.
danah.orgThriving 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
Bluesky’s approach to curation is based on the idea that people “must have control over
our algorithms if we’re going to trust in our online spaces” (The Bluesky Team, 2022).
The platform’s support for custom feeds supports this mission, offering “essentially a
farmers’ market of algorithms” (Graber quoted in SXSW, 2025, 54:18). Yet custom feeds
exist... See more
our algorithms if we’re going to trust in our online spaces” (The Bluesky Team, 2022).
The platform’s support for custom feeds supports this mission, offering “essentially a
farmers’ market of algorithms” (Graber quoted in SXSW, 2025, 54:18). Yet custom feeds
exist... See more