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Does your neighborhood have enough social capital? Civic spaces are in decline across America, but Serena Chao is optimistic because many activists, researchers, and community leaders are working hard on re-building social trust.

🌡️ Temperature check: it's been over a month since Google rolled out AI summaries in their search results. Has it actually helped you find answers?

What are you trying to say by using  👍 ? Are you showing sincere agreement? Or are you being  passive aggressive or dismissive? Online culture and connectivity has accelerated the change in the language we use, and it shouldn’t surprise us that the meaning of emojis are shifting too. 

RESEARCH: Controlled use of social media during study breaks could actually be an effective way to rest. Study shows that active and conscious entertainment, like messaging a friend, might lead to better feelings of rejuvenation, while passive scrolling contributes to procrastination. https://lnkd.in/g5dp2niy

🎳20 years ago, Robert Putnam’s book Bowling Alone described a significant drop in American social capital. Today, many of us feel like we are “posting alone” on our private social media bubbles. We can change it: let’s build uplifting and thriving local digital spaces in communities throughout the US!

If you're catching up with recent Supreme Court decisions on social media: For the first time, the justices ruled that algorithmic curation is protected 1st Amendment expression.

How can you get your start in responsible tech? What skills do you need? How is the field changing? An All Tech Is Human livestream discussion, hosted by a panel of experts and students, shares insights into career pathways in responsible tech and answers your burning questions.

If you’ve missed the good old days of Myspace, good news — Gen Z might be bringing it back. Inspired by the simplicity of the 2000s, these rising new platforms suggest that people are fed up with endless feeds of strangers and are craving genuine, organic connections with friends.

The way news publishers reach audiences on social media is ongoing a massive, tumultuous reset. The 2024 Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism offers desperately needed insights into this changing landscape. https://lnkd.in/eM6xVNGt

AI is slowly taking over the internet, and there are fewer and fewer actual “human-centered” spaces online. “Perhaps we will someday look at the unvarnished human expression in a space like Metafilter as we do at the Grand Canyon or thousand-year-old redwoods,” writes Ethan Zuckerman