social change

Jumo: Cause Curation or Engagement Engine?

Jumo, a new cause-driven social networking site launched in beta on Tuesday by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, shows some promise on first glance as a cause curator, wrapping a lot of information into a nice simple package. However, it is not immediately clear how the site will go beyond making introductions and providing information (worthy [...]

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Expectations for Oversight in the Age of Social Networks

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how a Harris Poll had been misrepresented as showing that young people were somehow gullible in their trust of advertising, and I promised to follow-up with an examination of the actually meaningful implications of that study. Quite opposite from being gullible, young Americans seem to recognize the [...]

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CeaseFire Chicago: Upending Twisted Norms of Urban Violence – NYTimes.com

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/opinion/11herbert.htm… I donated to CeaseFire Chicago last night, because while I am lucky to be able to live and work in relative peace and safety, just a few miles away from me are areas of violence where innocent children have been killed on a nightly basis. I am committed to the idea that regardless [...]

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