publicinfrastructure.org
The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure's manifesto sets out the three legs upon which an open public sphere must rest.
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algorithm,
social media,
regulation,
community,
privacy,
publicsphere,
moderation,
fediverse,
adversarial interoperability,
cozyweb,
pluriverse,
vsop,
pubhub,
robert putnam,
idpi,
ai4communities
newpublic.substack.com
"A deep dive into Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone", over 20 years later, by "former New_ Public Research Fellow Serena Chao".Social capital, according to Putnam, "is the “connections among individuals — social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them”... [making] a strong case for a…
archive.boston.com
Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," ... found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects.... virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings... "Diversity... seems to bring out the tu…