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There's a Neighbor for That: On Civic Associations as a Social Technology

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Investigating the art of association in the digital age.

There's a Neighbor for That: On Civic Associations as a Social Technology There's a Neighbor for That: On Civic Associations as a Social Technology Authors Published June 27 2022 A year into its ethnographic research of digital governance, Other Internet turns its attention towards an old school social technology: neighborhood associations. The digitization of city life has slowly altered the nature of civic participation, rendering local governance as another suite of apps to interface with. Voluntary associations offer an “autonomous zone” that continues to serve as a buffer against the tren

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