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🥵 🤬 🤩 Understanding how norms shape digital spaces

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Our friends at Sublime just released a zine exploring new possibilities for the internet that looks perfect for fans of New_ Public. You can check it out here and find a special discount code below. As I wrote in introducing our Digital Spaces Directory, “Nearly every day we meet new people excited by the possibilities of prosocial digital public spaces.” There are so many developers, engineers, designers, and funders attempting to build new products and spaces right now. One of the main requests we hear from these builders is for more insight into what works and what doesn’t. As we build our own tools and patterns for stewards of online communities, we’ve been doing a lot of reading and we want to share what we’ve learned. Our researchers Angelica Quicksey and Mary Beth Hunzaker have been taking in dozens of sources, including a lot of social science research applicable to public-spirited product development. We’ll be releasing some full collections of research soon, but before that,

Our friends at Sublime just released a zine exploring new possibilities for the internet that looks perfect for fans of New_ Public. You can check it out here and find a special discount code below. As I wrote in introducing our Digital Spaces Directory, “Nearly every day we meet new people excited by the possibilities of prosocial digital public spaces.” There are so many developers, engineers, designers, and funders attempting to build new products and spaces right now. One of the main requests we hear from these builders is for more insight into what works and what doesn’t. As we build…

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