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Robert Putnam showed in his book Bowling Alone
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Robert D. Putnam.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
In his book Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam references
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Robert Putnam posited a relationship between trust and the breakdown of community ties,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Findings about the negative effects of growing diversity on trust and on social capital need not hold for the longer -run. T he key to a better future is, as Putnam argues, the redefinition of social identities. “Identity itself is socially constructed and c an be socially de -constructed and re -constructed.
Isabel V. Sawhill • Social Capital: Why We Need It and How We Can Create More of It
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
as Bob Putnam lays out in Bowling Alone, participation in parent-teacher organizations has dropped from more than 12 million in 1964 to about 7 million. Despite decades of increased urban migration bringing us more physically proximate to each other, we don’t know each other better — instead, our reported feelings of loneliness have shockingly doub... See more