Archive: Author: The Management

In just the last two weeks, newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has gained half a million new Twitter followers, zooming from 1.6M to 2.1M. On Instagram, another platform where she excels at sharing interesting glimpses of her life as an activist-turned-newly-successful-politician, Ocasio-Cortez now has 1.6M followers, putting her in the top ranks of politicians using the platform world-wide. As David Perry wrote recently in Pacific Standard magazine, Ocasio-Cortez is perfecting "the politics of digital intimacy….She is using the immediacy and ephemeral nature of live chats and 'stories' to intensify and expand her networks of political support. Her followers feel as if they are being invited into her life, participating with her as she enters the halls of Congress as...

This article is co-authored by Darshana Narayanan.Dear Civicist reader,It’s been quite a year and as this year draws to a close, we’d like to mull over, with you, the most significant developments around tech, politics and civic life in 2018. To do this we have created a virtual conversation space using Polis—a civic engagement tool that has been used to craft legislation in Taiwan, crowdsource youth concerns in Singapore, run a ‘Virtual Town Hall’ in Bowling Green Kentucky, gather collective input on the future of open data at IODC 2018, and create a ‘HiveMind’ around local issues by New Zealand media org Scoop. Our topic: What were the most significant developments in tech and politics in 2018?Together, let’s see what...