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@michaelgarfield @aaas @librarycongress @Britannica @CMSImpact @NewAmerica @AIRmedia Thanks Michael! I'm not spending much time on X these days but I appreciate the boost :)

#HumansOnTheLoop Ep 07 - Jessica Clark of @DotCoStudio on Making New Realities with New Media Jessica has honed her skills for decades on a path that’s carried her from @AAAS to @librarycongress to @Britannica to the @CMSImpact to @NewAmerica to @AIRmedia and beyond, and now she oversees a refuge for social innovators working at the intersections of philanthropy, media, arts and culture, and futurism. We need dot connectors more than ever if we are to trace the shape of what’s emerging, and I look to Jessica as an example of how to weave research, experience design, production, strategy, and culture-building into something like the raft we need to make our way through vast uncertainty to thriving futures just over the horizon. In this episode we discuss the ideas shared in her book with Kamal Sinclair, Making A New Reality: A Toolkit for Inclusive Futures and how to rethink storytelling in new media. 0:07:51 - Who is Jessica Clark? 0:10:42 - “New Media” Means New Kinds of “Reality” 0:15:18 - Storytelling & Social Power 0:25:07 - Overcoming Groupthink / Problems in The Creative Economy 0:32:39 - Fairness in New Media 0:40:38 - What Do We Measure While Incubating Creativity? 0:48:32 - Post-Institutional Credentials 0:55:01 - How Do We Support “The Interstitionaries”? 1:02:14 - Intergenerational Wisdom & The Value of Conflict to Truth 1:08:59 - What Biases Do We Want? 1:14:29 - The Future Voice of Fandom

Where to place your attention is without question a moral act. This is the understanding I am trying to help inject into the conversation around generative large language models. The more people energize worst-case outcomes the more we guarantee them. If we can help people get enough distance from their knee-jerk fear response to reflect on their own minds and, as the bumper sticker says, not believe everything they think, we can interrupt the fear stream with an executive reallocation mandate that brings us rapidly and coherently closer to worlds we actually want to live in. Silicon Valley is having a bad trip right now. It needs spiritual guidance if we are to live the promise of these tools.

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The conversation surrouding #GenerativeAI, including #ChatGPT & #DALLE, has garnerned a wide variety of reactions online. @beyondbroadcast breaks down what exactly it is, what it means for organizations such as @RWJF & the communities they serve. Read on: buff.ly/3T7jmne

🚨NEW issue on @immersenow: Disability Justice, Technology & Access! With the perspectives from artists, activists, scholars and technologists, this issue centers on disability innovation in documentary & emerging tech. Read the full issue below 📝 1/9 immerse.news/welcome-to-our…

Only two days left to register!! Join co-designer (and fellow course registrant) @beyondbroadcast for this 16-week course, Emergent Expressions spearheaded by @BristolBaughan! Register here: bristolbaughan.com/emergentexpres…

This new year marks our first Fun with Futures collaboration. The Emergent Expressions Class is a 16-week course spearheaded by @BristolBaughan, will provide writers a semester-long structured program for personal transformation and creative expression.” buff.ly/3PDHP1s

“The ‘Substackization’ of celebrity journalists removes these voices from the larger conversation and makes them more narrowly available to a paying audience made up of superfans.” @beyondbroadcast for #predix2023 buff.ly/3PLB7Xl

Back in September, @beyondbroadcast participated in the @lenfestinst Reimagining Philadelphia #Journalism Summit meant to forge new paths toward a more #inclusive, thriving #Philadelphia news ecosystem. Read more takeaways from the Summit ⬇️ buff.ly/3G6aOrP

Internet community go hand-in-hand with internet culture. With an ever changing social media landscape, some questions are harder to answer. @EthanZ gives his two sense on whether you should vacate Twitter for another platform. ⬇️ #DCS_Reads buff.ly/3t7jo2b

Back in 2021, @beyondbroadcast worked with @ISOC_Foundation to launch the #BOLT Grant Program. Check out the #internetlibrary BOLT grantee, Manuela Córdoba, created! ⬇️ buff.ly/3Y0DedK

🚨NEW on @immersenow! In part two of her three-part series covering featured highlights of #VeniceImmersive, @sarahwolozin interviews #immersive #artist and artistic director Mélanie Courtinat. Read the interview ⬇️ immerse.news/revealing-real…

🧵 #ICYMI on @immersenow! Check out the thread below for the latest on Immerse! /1 immerse.news

“Where does staying up-to-speed tip over into harmful news addiction?” Lots to ponder and think about in this from ⁦@beyondbroadcast⁩ ⁦@DotCoStudio⁩, including the above point medium.com/whats-next-hea…

"As @RWJF’s futurist-in-residence, I went in with an ear tuned for fresh developments at the intersection of reporting and health equity." After the @MediaFunders October convening, @beyondbroadcast reflects on her hunches re the journalism industry.⬇️ buff.ly/3EJa5fl

More from twitter HQ:

🚨NEW on @immersenow! In a new three-part series, @sarahwolozin explores how #storytellers are using #VR to create imaginary worlds where participants must uncover the truth. Read part one ⬇️ immerse.news/revealing-real…

Check out the latest #newsletter from @immersenow, written by @fromthehip! Like what you see? Subscribe! immerse.substack.com/p/collective-w…

📢 ATTENTION WRITERS! Immerse is seeking pitches for the upcoming issue: Dreaming #Disability #Justice! Check out the #cfp to learn more & pitch by 10/25! For more info: buff.ly/3D5cu3l

Did Philip K. Dick win the future predictions lottery? A fascinating read where David Samuels examines the "predictive psychology" works of Philip K. Dick and how Dick cemented his place as a literary genius via @unherd. #DCS_Reads ⬇️ buff.ly/3RE9ZZP

I woke up this morning to a news alert that our @GirlsWhoCode middle-grade book series was banned by some school districts as part of the Mom for Liberty effort to ban books. To be honest, I am so angry I cannot breathe. newsweek.com/handmaids-tale…