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The Local Connection Crisis: New Data on What Communities Need
State Media Monitor
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Gazing Back at the Surveillance Cameras That Watch Us (Published 2018)
These photographers explored the implications of a culture of pervasive monitoring.

OpenMedia
OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We create community-driven campaigns to engage, educate, and empower people to safeguard the Internet.

Anchor - Your Personal Location Journal
Home | The Local News Research Project
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin

Creating a Flourishing Digital Public Space for Your Local Area | Notion
A how-to guide for admins and moderators of inclusive, uplifting, and public-spirited local Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, and more...

Trails and public spaces — Rafael M. Batista
A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.
🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities
We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

Home | Vancity Lookout
News. Food. People. Events. A newsletter for locals who love Vancouver. (And you'll actually love reading). Delivered 3x a week for free and read by 25,000+ locals.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.


Announcing a great slate of *Field Reporters* — publications on community activity from art to movies, soccer analytics to Black media, local & regional scenes & more! Excited to see how these can not only capture interesting Atmospheric activity, but help catalyze it. Check em out & subscribe!
Leaflet's First 10 Atmosphere Field Reporters — writing on art, sports, science, fandom, local scenes and more!
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