Talia Stroud - Digital communities, civic signals, and connective democracy

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Natalie (Talia, as she goes by) Stroud has for years been studying the ways that our lives online show up in and shape our lives together. Her scholarship as her life are unexampled guides to the tumult, the challenges, and the opportunity presented by the advent and evolution of digital media.
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Flourishing Commons Newsletter

Show Notes:

• Federal Communications Committee "Information Needs of Communities" (08:10)
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson (08:50)
• Center for Media Engagement (11:00)
• Niche News (12:00)
• Governing the Commonsby Elinor Ostrom (17:00)
• Understanding Knowledge As a Commonsby Hess and Ostrom (17:30)
• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (17:40)
• 'crisis discipline' (e.g., Michael Soulé) (18:00)
• Danielle Allen on relationality (20:00)
• New_ Public (22:20)
• Civic Signals (23:50 & 32:00)
• Talia's research with Meta around 2020 presidential election (26:00)
• Eli Pariser (34:00)
• Great Asking episode of Origins (35:00)
• the four building blocks of a healthy or flourishing digital community (37:30)
• what does it mean to flourish? (39:00)
• Umberto Eco and lists (42:20)
• trust (43:00)
• Martha Nussbaum (46:20)
• public imagination (51:00)
• Healing the Heart of Democracyby Parker Palmer (55:20)
• Lightning Round (55:40)
  • Book: The Nature and Origins of Public Opinions by John Zaller
  • Passion: business and marketing 'beach read' books
  • Heart Sing: election integrity
  • Screwed up: reducing polarization in ways practical and scalable
• Find Talia online:
  • UT Austin
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Talia’s playlist

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