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⚖️📲 Social media punishment does not need to be a Kafkaesque nightmare

Matt Katsaros on procedural justice and our case studies with the Social Media Governance Initiative

Nov 17 •

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🇺🇸🗳️ Beyond Election Day: how social media shapes politics

Insights on our information ecosystem for the 2024 election

Nov 4 •

📬 Reviving the community newsletter for the digital age

Piloting away from endless feeds and towards curated digests

Oct 20 •

Adit Dhanushkodi

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Leila Kashani-Sabet

🧶🌆 Knitting society back together: A policy framework for civic renewal

Surfing a new wave of communitarianism with Sam Pressler of Connective Tissue

Oct 6 •

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🚀 📒 Just launched: Your essential guide to local digital community building

Best practices for creating and maintaining a public-spirited online space for your neighborhood, town, or city

Sep 22 •

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Ravon Ruffin Feliz

👋 🏘️ Why don’t we know our neighbors?

How Common Agency is piloting new tech to bring people together

Sep 8 •

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🤣 🤭 How memes are reshaping human connection

From Dawkins to TikTok: classifying how memes bring us together

Aug 25 •

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🍁🏡 The Vermont miracle: How one local platform is rewriting the rules of social media

Read our research study and just-released Washington Post exclusive

Aug 11 •

👩🏽‍🎨🧑🏼‍🔬 Lessons from stewards: the art and science of nurturing healthy digital spaces

Ten months of fellowship, co-design, and stewardship in the Community Stewards Guild

Jul 21 •

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Leila Kashani-Sabet

🎳🇺🇸 From bowling alleys to digital spaces: Rethinking American social capital

A deep dive into Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone

Jul 7 •

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