Foossa December 2016
VIDEO: Lee Sean and David talk about Storytelling for Good
Lee Sean and David spoke at StoryForward NYC about how socially conscious organizations can use story telling to more effectively achieve their mission.
THOUGHTS FROM OTHERS
A few of our favorite reads this month
This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked.
“Despite rising concern among the public, social-media companies have had little success stemming the wave of online harassment….As part of research recently published in the journal Political Behavior, I conducted an experiment on Twitter to find out the best tactics people can use to discourage other users from using harassing language. In the short run, heavy-handed sanctions like account bans can actually embolden users who are censored. There is excellent evidence that this happens in China when the regime employs censorship.
A better option might be to empower users to improve their online communities through peer-to-peer sanctioning. “
Trump's Data Team Saw a Different America - And They Were Right.
“Nobody saw it coming. Not the media. Certainly not Hillary Clinton. Not even Donald Trump’s team of data scientists, holed up in their San Antonio headquarters 1,800 miles from Trump Tower, were predicting this outcome. But the scientists picked up disturbances — like falling pressure before a hurricane — that others weren’t seeing. It was the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House…
Trump’s numbers were different, because his analysts, like Trump himself, were forecasting a fundamentally different electorate than other pollsters and almost all of the media: older, whiter, more rural, more populist. And much angrier at what they perceive to be an overclass of entitled elites. In the next three weeks, Trump channeled this anger on the stump, at times seeming almost unhinged."
How One Florida City is Reinventing Itself With UX Design
“We were given the charge by the elected officials to make the city more competitive,” Lyons says. “We came to the conclusion that like great companies, great cities need to think about user experience. That’s the biggest [innovation] differentiator. For cities, user experience is not at the forefront. We were a one-way kind of city, meaning we engage and deliver. So when you think of citizens and users not as customers, but as co-designers of those services, in the end you get a much better experience because it’s one based on what they need rather than what the government needs. Policy making is done as one track and implementation is done in a separate track. How might the two really influence each other?”
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