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Puget Sound Off, Youth-led Civic Engagement Platform Relaunched
It's a new year and with new faces in City Hall, PugetSoundOff.org is inviting youth, policy makers and invested adults to join in conversation on the newly designed civic voice platform, which launched on January [...]
Rethinking Collective Action in the Age of Personalized Communication and Politics
CCCE Director Bennett Publishes “The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics” with Colleague Alexandra Segerberg Late modern democracies have undergone a historic shift. Citizens, particularly the youngest segments of [...]
Living Voters Guide wins top state app
The Living Voters Guide won top prize in the Evergreen Apps Challenge. The crowd-sourced voter guide is a collaboration among CCCE, the UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Seattle CityClub. The project is [...]
Becoming Citizens Interns Engage Local Students with Civic Voice Curriculum
During Spring Quarter 2012, twelve University of Washington undergraduate students went into local middle and high schools and community centers to run the Becoming Citizens civic voice curriculum. The interns worked at Mercer Middle School, [...]
Howard awarded fellowship at Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton
Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy has awarded Philip Howard a fellowship year, beginning March 2012. The Center is a nexus of expertise in technology and engineering, public policy, and the social sciences and the [...]
Howard Blogs the Revolution
With the political uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011, the CCCE's sister project the Project on Information Technology and Political Islam became a go-to portal for journalists and foreign policy experts. [...]
CCCE NSF grant for technology and public deliberation
Lance Bennett and Alan Borning (Computer Science) have received an award of $733,000 from the NSF Social-Computational Systems Program for a three-year project titled, "Socio-Computational Systems to Support Public Engagement and Deliberation." Read more and [...]
CCCE director will be Olof Palme Chair at Stockholm University
The Swedish Research Council has selected Lance Bennett to hold the national Olof Palme Chair for 2010 (with return visits in 2011 and 2012). The Olof Palme Chair was created by the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) in 1987. Its [...]
Lance Bennett on media spin and ‘Manufacturing Doubts About Science’
Lance Bennett talks on "Manufacturing Doubts About Science: How Media Spin Undermines Engagement with Public Problems" at the University of Washington Global Health Seminar, May 21, 2010. This talk was also given at Town Hall [...]
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett John de Graaf, moderator Saturday, January 9, 2010 2-4 p.m. UW Communication 126 Listen to or download the talk (20MB) Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett will talk about their book, [...]