Participatory Politics: Next-Generation Tactics to Remake Public Spheres

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1. Invisible Children research is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, through funding to Henry Jenkins and his colleagues at the University of Southern California.

2. See the Invisible Children’s vimeo site, at http://vimeo.com/invisible.

3. See Apps for Communities, at http://appsforcommunities.challenge.gov.

4. See the Human Face of Big Data’s website, at http://humanfaceofbig data.com/about.

5. The Mobile Action Lab is funded in part by the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

6. Asha Richardson and I cofounded the Lab, and since 2012 it has been run by Kurt Collins.

Concluding Thoughts

1. The blending of online and offline might appear to make the Web safer and less nasty by diminishing anonymity, but Chun says that it’s often motivated by monetization (advertisers pay premiums when they know whose eyeballs they’re attracting) and that it sometimes fosters greater cruelty when users know whom they’re dealing with and can track adversaries beyond the digital realm.