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🫂💰🛠️ In community, we have everything we need

GatherFor's Teju Ravilochan on what small groups of neighbors working together can accomplish

Apr 14 •

Teju Ravilochan

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🪤 The internet was supposed to be democratic. Why isn’t it?

Media theorist Nathan Schneider’s new book on the implicit feudalism of digital communities

Mar 31 •

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🧭 🏙️ Navigating the digital landscape of a real city

From BBS to Nextdoor: tracing the history of online spaces for local communities

Mar 17 •

Humphrey Obuobi

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🧮 How to calculate the inclusiveness of online groups

Our new paper on Dynamic Polycentrism with the SNF Agora Institute

Mar 3 •

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👍 😡 Three billion people using one website… what could go wrong?

Reconsidering Facebook at 20 through a book on the Facebook Files

Feb 18 •

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💪 Empowering community stewards to cultivate prosocial norms

Insights and design concepts from our R&D partnership with Hylo

Feb 4 •

Mary Beth Hunzaker

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Adit Dhanushkodi

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🇪🇺 Beyond regulation: building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure

Open Future on the underlying building blocks of a better internet

Jan 21 •

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🌍 👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏽 Building a digital lifeline for women around the world

“Do not mess around with Facebook’s social graph, okay?”

Jan 7 •

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🌟 Our holiday message

Dec 21, 2023 •

🥵 🤬 🤩 Understanding how norms shape digital spaces

Research and recommendations for cultivating prosocial norms

Dec 10, 2023 •

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