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Knight Institute, ACLU, and More than 40 Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Embrace a More Open Government
Letter proposes steps the administration could take immediately
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Creator Logic: It's like Uber but for culture
The original gig economy returns online
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Institute Attorney Urges the Biden Administration to Release Secret OLC Opinions
Stephanie Krent talks to Legal Edition about importance of government transparency to our democracy
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The Great Shopping Mall: The market nationalist logic of Chinese social media
The West tends to focus on security, but entertainment and commerce are the key goals here
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A Third Federal Appeals Court Addresses Social Media Blocking
Agrees that public officials who use social media accounts to further their official duties must comply with the First Amendment
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Top 100: The most popular social media platforms and what they can teach us
Moving past U.S. and Facebook centrism
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Biden Administration Signals Openness to Reconsidering Social Media Surveillance of Visa Applicants
Orders a review of a dangerous Trump administration screening and vetting policy and ends discriminatory executive order that led to it
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A Promising Start
The new administration takes steps to reaffirm transparency and press freedom
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Deplatforming Our Way to the Alt-Tech Ecosystem
What happens when you exile users and communities?
By Ethan Zuckerman & Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci -
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Local Logic: It's not always a beautiful day in the neighborhood
The advantages and disadvantages of local platforms and their potential to support healthy communities on- and offline
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Civic Logic: Social media with opinion and purpose
It may be our best chance to build digital spaces that enhance our social and civic life
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Chat Logic: When you want a living room, not a town square
People want privacy and ephemerality, but can it scale?
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What if Social Media Worked More Like Email?
Hearkening back to the internet’s good ole days with decentralized networks
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Crypto Logic Platforms and the Cautionary Tale of Steemit
What makes crypto social media unique?
By Ethan Zuckerman & Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci -
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Beyond Facebook Logic: Help us map alternative social media!
Toward a civic-minded social media
By Ethan Zuckerman & Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci -
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Big Data, Access to Public Health Information, and the Rush for a Cure: An Interview with Amy Kapczynski
Assessing the data and information needed to evaluate critical health and policy decisions
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Leading Legal Scholars and Technologists to Contribute to “Data and Democracy” Symposium
Symposium will take place online, October 15-16, 2020
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Announcing the Knight Institute’s Occasional Papers Series
Institute launches a new series with an essay by Jack Balkin
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The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse: Visualizing the Conversation
Illustrator chronicles big tech symposium
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New Essay Series: The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
Addressing the tech giants' control over a wide range of economic and expressive activity
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Knight Institute to Convene Data and Democracy Symposium
Symposium to consider ways to ensure a robust democracy in the age of big data
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Knight Institute to Convene Symposium on Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
Symposium to explore whether anti-monopoly tools could be used to address platforms' power over public discourse