"Cities served by newspapers with relatively sharp declines in newsroom staffing [had] reduced political competition in mayoral races. We also find suggestive evidence that lower staffing levels are associated with lower voter turnout." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087419838058 #localjournalism #journalism #civichealth c @niemanlab

Want to Understand L.G.B.T.Q. Life in America? Come to Alabama.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/opinion/lgbtq-rights-activism-alabama.html #lgbtq #civichealth #alabama #huntsville #cities #humanrights

“Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous #disinformation that puts #publichealth and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian #adtech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in #Ukraine, putting their security and privacy at risk.” New at @ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud
#civichealth #google #siliconvalley #dataethics #infosec

“Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous #disinformation that puts #publichealth and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian #adtech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in #Ukraine, putting their security and privacy at risk.” New at @ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud
#civichealth #google #siliconvalley #dataethics #infosec

Always worth reading: @p2173's annual #Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society Blueprint.

The 2023 edition is now out: https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/resources/blueprints/

Her predictions usually come true. Among the 2023 predictions: "Twitter will cease to exist in any meaningful form."

#civictech #civichealth #data #nonprofit #nptech #gpt3 #dalle

Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism: Deion Scott Hawkins in @TheConversationUS

"Pew Research has found African Americans who use Twitter are twice as likely (68%) to discuss issues of race online compared with their white counterparts (31%)...28% of Twitter’s users are African American [as of 2018]."

https://theconversation.com/black-twitters-expected-demise-would-make-it-harder-to-publicize-police-brutality-and-discuss-racism-195146 #racism #blacklivesmatter #blackmastodon #BlackTwitter #racialequity #civichealth #datadon #policing

(4/n) "Every 10 minutes of commuting time cuts all forms of civic engagement by 10%" http://robertdputnam.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bt_1_29.pdf #civichealth #sociology #economics #urbanism #publichealth #commuting #urbanplanning #sprawl #cities c @charlesincities

@cira @anildash @adamdavidson “The instance grew from less than 60 users to what is now 24 500 users in the span of just two weeks,” and is supported by CIRA. Anyone have a list of US-based nonprofits providing similar support to Mastodon instances? State of the Instance: https://news.mstdn.ca/state-of-the-instance-nov-2022/ by @chad #mastodonmigration #twittermigration #philanthropy #civichealth #nonprofit

This is great!

"More than 300 institutions and 30,000 providers have added nonpartisan civic health to their checklist of ways to care for the whole person, with the hope that helping people vote can address long-standing health disparities."

#Healthcare #politics #medicine #CivicHealth

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-medical-systems-can-help-people-vote/