<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Ar6CQKaDb_habG8ZZ6oW5uca60hi77ogGPvNoov4nlqOX4TEMaUbPAh0nmQV_FuVGC_mLoprBz66-oC6KUaXLRgUqK0He8esNE41-xzjic8335SXElFwJBUNESUUU65se_FFXNCE" width="624" height="312" style="max-width:100%"></b><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Friends,</span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">In just three weeks, a fast-growing and extraordinary group of technologists, visionaries, designers, critics and activists, researchers, and builders will be kicking off the New_ Public festival -- including you! </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">The timing couldn’t be better: At a precarious moment for democracy and the turn of the new year, we’re coming together to chart a more hopeful and equitable future for digital public life. </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">So, </span><b>please block these times on your calendar</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> now (all times ET): </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">11:15am-3:15pm </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NW1ycGR2YWtzdW5ocGZ0Z2Vwam1ub2dyZGggY2l2aWMuc2lnbmFsc0Bt&tmsrc=civic.signals%40gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>January 12</u></a><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> and 7-9pm </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlyZ2gzYzk3NXU0dGg2amVoMjhmbTYzZnAgY2l2aWMuc2lnbmFsc0Bt&tmsrc=civic.signals%40gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>performance/open mic</u></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">11:15am-3:45pm </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MTZ2NGhtMjU4NnJwYXQ0OTdqbzhlb3BlNHYgY2l2aWMuc2lnbmFsc0Bt&tmsrc=civic.signals%40gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>January 13</u></a><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> and 7-9pm </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MXQ4Nmpoamxyc2FjNGRsY2VtcW9kZTBmNjggY2l2aWMuc2lnbmFsc0Bt&tmsrc=civic.signals%40gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>performance/open mic</u></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">11:15am-4pm </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=N2s5M2ZsajgxYmVjMHNmb2twY3YxY2p2NjcgY2l2aWMuc2lnbmFsc0Bt&tmsrc=civic.signals%40gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>January 14</u></a><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Below, there are more exciting updates about what’s in store. Our experiential track is filling up fast, but if there are a few key other folks who you think would benefit from being part of this conversation,</span><b> encourage them to sign up now</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">: </span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-public-festival-registration-129333438797?aff=affiliate" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-public-festival-registration-129333438797?aff=affiliate</u></a><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">On to the updates!</span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>New exciting speakers and discussants: </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">In addition to our previously announced speakers and discussants, we’re excited to welcome </span><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and host of the On Being podcast</span><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span><b>Krista Tippett</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, futurist </span><b>Madebo Fatunde</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Facebook Oversight Board member and Cato Institute Vice President </span><b>John Samples</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, </span><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry </span><b>Safiya Noble, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">pioneering interactive media designer and researcher </span><b>Brenda Laurel, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Director of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism </span><b>Rasmus Nielsen</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, tech humanist </span><b>Tristan Harris</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Taiwan digital minister </span><b>Audrey Tang, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">digital infrastructure visionary </span><b>Ethan Zuckerman</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> and many more to the lineup! The full list is below. And stay tuned for a few more big special announcements to come. </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>Genre-bending award winning artistic collaborators: </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Along with the MAP Lab who are helping us build a not-your-normal-Zoom experience for this event, we’re excited to be working with director, artist and founder of Early Morning Opera Lars Jan, product designer and Dialup CEO Danielle Baskin, artist and creator of P5.js Lauren McCarthy, and transdisciplinary artist, evocator of future histories and professor Stephanie Dinkins.</span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>Future space showcase: </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">We’ll tour some exciting glimpses of platforms built with principles of public space, including </span><b>Planetary</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> (Evan Henshaw-Plath), </span><b>Friend Camp</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> and </span><b>Run Your Social</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> (Darius Kazemi), </span><b>Cortico</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> (Deb Roy), </span><b>DemocracyOS </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">(Pia Mancini), </span><b>PublicSpaces</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> (Geert-Jan Bogaerts), </span><b><a href="http://majal.org/" target="_blank">Majal.org</a> </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">(Esra’a Al Shafei) and </span><b>Block Party</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">(Tracy Chou).</span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>Big research debut: </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">At the festival, Civic Signals co-founders, Talia Stroud and Eli Pariser, will share the surprising, hopeful results of two years of research on the qualities of healthy digital space. </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>..and a number of chances to work, talk, and think together throughout the program. </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">All of this is up on the </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://newpublic.org/festival" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><u>newly updated Festival website</u></a><span style="text-decoration-line:none">. </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><b>Our full festival lineup includes:</b><br></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Aaron Z. Lewis</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Product designer and writer</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Anasuya Sengupta</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Poet, author, and co-founder of <a href="http://whoseknowledge.org/" target="_blank">WhoseKnowledge.org</a></span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Astra Taylor</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, </span><i>The People’s Platform</i><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> author, documentarian, and political organizer</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Audrey Tang</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Taiwanese free software programmer and Taiwan's Digital Minister</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Brenda Laurel,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Video game designer, researcher, and author</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Cory Doctorow</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Special Advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of ATTACK SURFACE</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Danielle Allen</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and author of </span><i>Difference Without Domination</i><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Darius Kazemi, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Computer programmer and artist  </span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:700"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Deb Roy, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Cortico founder and MIT Media Lab Executive Director</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:700"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Esra'a Al Shafei, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Bahraini human rights activist and founder of <a href="http://majal.org/" target="_blank">Majal.org</a></span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Ethan Zuckerman, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">founder of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Evan Henshaw-Plath,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Technologist, CEO at Planetary</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Eve Pearlman,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Journalistic innovator and co-founder of Spaceship Media</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Gabriella Gomez-Mont,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Founder and former director of the Laboratorio para la Ciudad, and director of Experimentalista, a new urban+creative studio.</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:700"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Geert-Jan Bogaerts, </b><span style="color:rgb(32,31,32)">initiator of the PublicSpaces coalition and head of innovation at VPRO</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Glen Weyl,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Social technologist, Microsoft advisor and founder of the RadicalxChange Foundation.</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>John Samples,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> VP, Cato Institute and FB Oversight Board member</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Konstantinos Dimopoulos</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, game urbanist, designer, and researcher; author of </span><i>Virtual Cities</i><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Krista Tippett</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Journalist, author, and creator of On Being</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Lucy Bernholz</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford </span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Madebo Fatunde</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Strategist, writer, and Guild For Future Architects founding member</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Mona Sloane,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Principal Investigator for Terra Incognita; NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology </span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Nathan Matias, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Assistant professor at Cornell University, founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab (CATLab)</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Panayotis Antoniadis,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Senior researcher, Co-founder NetHood Zurich</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:700"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Philip Rosedale, </b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Founder of Linden Labs (host of Second Life) and HighFidelity</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Rachel Coldicutt,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Community technology strategist at <a href="http://careful.industries/" target="_blank">Careful.Industries</a> </span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Rasmus Nielsen,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Safiya Noble</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Sara Hendren,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Artist, design researcher, and Professor at Olin College of Engineering</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Tracy Chou,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Software engineer, CEO at Block Party</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Tricia Wang,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">global tech ethnographer and founder of Sudden Compass</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Tristan Harris,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.</span><br></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-line:none"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px"><b>Xiaowei Wang,</b><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> Artist, coder, author of </span><i>BlockChain Chicken Farm</i><span style="text-decoration-line:none">, Creative Director of Logic magazine</span><br></p></li></ul><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">We’ll be following up in the next few weeks with specific information about how to participate. We can’t wait to see you all there, and to envision a new public together. </span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Sincerely,</span><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">Eli, Talia, Romy and Neelam</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">The New_ Public team</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);border-collapse:separate"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">Douglas Schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:douglas@publicsphereproject.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">douglas@publicsphereproject.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12px">Twitter: @doug_schuler</div><div style="font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></span>Public Sphere Project<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-size:12px">     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/</a></div></div></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12px"><br></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good</div><div>     <font color="#4787ff"><u><span> <a href="http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci</a></span><span>4cg-announce</span></u></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">    </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Creating the World Citizen Parliament</div>     <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-collapse:separate"><a href="http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament</a><div>     </div></span>Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) <div>     <a href="http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv</a></div><div><br></div>Liberating Voices!  A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book)         <div><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices" target="_blank">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liberating-voices</a></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>