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New America
Policy report
Building the future
This report report makes the case for the need to create a community of practitioners invested in exploring and building the nascent field of public interest technology. Interviews with academics and practitioners identified that a key barrier to growing the field was a lack of shared principles, or even a definition of public interest technology...
Report
Where residents, politics, and government meet: Philadelphia’s experiments with civic engagement
Fresh thinking about civic engagement does not have to be complex. The best approaches go back to the basics, ask the right questions, and focus on the people.
Report
Digital deceit: the technologies behind precision propaganda on the internet
This report argues that the central problem of disinformation corrupting American political culture is not Russian spies or a particular social media platform. The central problem is that the entire industry is built to leverage sophisticated technology to aggregate user attention and sell advertising.
Report
ISIS in the West: the new faces of extremism
Immediately following the recent extremist attacks in Paris, this report provides an analysis of the kinds of people attracted to ISIS and other jihad movements from the West.