👋 Another week in Rosieland, welcome, welcome!
I've started calling what I offer here at Rosieland "Community Curiosity as a Service". My goal is to help you think differently about community.
Sometimes I write stuff with my own thoughts, but to be honest, I'm equally committed to sharing other people's voices too. This surfaces in things like this weekly newsletter, what is shared in our Slack, regular conversations and the Rosieland Knowledgebase.
It's a labour or love, that brings me a sense of calm amongst the chaos that is out there. Often I start my weekly research efforts tired, but go into hyperfocus and come out energized. Life is funny like that.
But it's also got me thinking, what exactly is Community Curiosity as a Service? I wrote some words on it, but I'll aim to write about it later this week. This is me holding myself accountable.
Onwards...
The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever | The Guardian
💔 It's been a tough week in the UK, my heart is very broken. It makes it particularly harder for me because I truly believe that giving local community the love and attention it deserves will make these societal problems disappear.
We all have something to learn from how good and bad spreads through online interactions. Love or hate it, we need to pay attention.
The government should create a community cohesion strategy as a matter of urgency, according to Mulhall.
“Multiculturalism takes work,” he said. A decline in third spaces away from home or work where people from different communities could mingle were “massively” important, he said.
“When individuals and different communities interact with each other, misinformation is harder to spread. When you play sport together, or go to the same youth clubs, boxing clubs, football clubs, or even just parks or libraries, when you hear lies about other communities, it’s more likely that they won’t believe them.”
Backstage community | Rosie Sherry
I look at what it means to look at community from a Backstage perspective and list 10 ways how I'm thinking about it.
Can an AI friend make you less lonely? | The Guardian
Meet Friend: a ‘Tamagotchi with a soul’, wearable AI companion that records your interactions and texts back.
Queering The Map
Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
The platform provides an interface to collaboratively record the cartography of queer life—from park benches to the middle of the ocean—in order to preserve our histories and unfolding realities, which continue to be invalidated, contested, and erased. From collective action to stories of coming out, encounters with violence to moments of rapturous love, Queering the Map functions as a living archive of queer life.
Community advisory committee do’s and don’ts | American Press Institute
- Do not build a committee based on information extraction
- Do set clear expectations of committee members
- Do create a committee with a wide range of voices
- Don’t be solely responsible for finding members; seek community help
- Do create more than one committee if you want more focus on certain communities
Are We So Connected That We Aren’t Connecting? | School of Thought
A visual essay from Jane Shore
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