Our friends at People Powered are debuting their updated ratings of digital participation tools. See how experts and hundreds of users and the platform developers have evaluated the best tools for participatory, democratic engagement online. Sign up for the launch event: Thursday, 9am EST

People Powered

Launch Event: 2024 Digital Participation Tool Ratings — People Powered

What are the best tools and platforms to enhance your digital participation program today? Learn more at this event!

Civil society can facilitate democracy or autocracy. How do we know which communities are which? Read more about our new hypothesis for measuring pluralism in online groups.

🧮 How to calculate the inclusiveness of online groups

Our new paper on Dynamic Polycentrism with the SNF Agora Institute

Accountable Tech scores the dominant platforms on election preparedness. Specifically they looked at resilience bolstering, election manipulation counter measures, and transparency efforts. The results are embarrassingly bad!

Accountable Tech

Democracy by Design: Social Media’s Policy Scores - Accountable Tech

Meaningful transparency on social media not “set it and forget it.” As new transparency regulations emerge around the world, join the Integrity Institute and the Action Coalition on Meaningful Transparency for a launch event and panel discussion.

A durable and systematic approach to meaningful transparency – launch event and panel discussion · Zoom · Luma

Join the Integrity Institute and the Action Coalition on Meaningful Transparency for a launch event and panel discussion! Panellists A moderated pa...

Are you a mod or admin? We want to hear from you! Five survey participants will be randomly selected to win $25 gift cards! Take part in our research study ⬇️

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

"We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before ... a few of the most important changes haven’t gotten any discussion at all." –@npub1t8u7...c7sk

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

Experimenting with design features that make norms visible: Here's a concept sketch of a search box for community stewards that provides recommendations on steps they can take to emphasize their community’s norms.

💪 Empowering community stewards to cultivate prosocial norms

Insights and design concepts from our R&D partnership with Hylo

Research: most of us are lurkers. "The vast majority of those who say they use these platforms have accounts with them, but less than half who have accounts — and even smaller proportions of all U.S. adults — post their own content."

Gallup.com

Social Media Users More Inclined to Browse Than Post Content

Americans commonly use social media platforms and hold accounts with the most popular ones, though they infrequently post their own content.

"Nearly 1 in 10 Gen Zers are more likely to rely on TikTok than Google as a search engine." Top categories include finding new recipes, music and DIY tips

Using TikTok as a Search Engine | Adobe Express

Explore how Americans harness TikTok as a search engine, their content preferences, and how businesses are adapting to this new trend.

Love this from @npub1hks4...ps44: How people around the world show that they're amused in online conversation

Rest of World

How different languages laugh online

Laughter is universal, but lol is not.

In the US, it's hard to imagine robust regulation of social media. In Europe, that's just the beginning. @npub18ua6...xrnv wants Europe to build an open and sustainable ecosystem offering alternatives to existing commercial social platforms.

🇪🇺 Beyond regulation: building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure

Open Future on the underlying building blocks of a better internet

Meet PolicyKit, a tool in private testing that uses API integrations to add governance options (like voting, juries, etc.) to platforms like Slack, Reddit and Github. Read more:

🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏿‍♂️ Democratizing power in online communities

PolicyKit’s Amy Zhang on disrupting the dominant, top–down governance model