First POST: Nudges
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, November 3 2014
How campaign tech has evolved in 2014; Joe Rospars on the Democratic party email crisis; how Facebook, ABC News and BuzzFeed are going to data-mine politics heading into 2016; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Gimme Shelter
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 29 2014
The link between intimate partner violence and surveillance tech; the operational security set-up that connected Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden; how Senate Dems are counting on tech to hold their majority; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Hot Spots
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 23 2014
How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is making inroads in China; labor protests among Uber drivers spread to more cities; new data about the prevalence of online harassment; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Reminders
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, October 22 2014
Why the RNC hasn't managed to reboot how Republican campaigns use voter data; new ways of using phone banking to get out the vote; how the UK's digital director is still ahead of the e-govt curve; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Hosts
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, October 16 2014
Airbnb in hot water in NYC; Knight Prototype Fund backs some civic tech projects; pondering Google's position on net neutrality; and much, much more. Read More
You Gotta Have Friends: New Study Shows Facebook Can Get Out the Vote
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, September 12 2012
Photo by Micah L. Sifry, 2008
A new study by researchers led by U.C. San Diego that is being published tomorrow in the journal Nature offers detailed evidence that a non-partisan get-out-the-vote reminder on Facebook can also increase voter turnout--especially if they come with evidence that your real friends are also voting. Read More
For Tea Partiers, A New Tool to Get Out the Vote On the Fly
BY Miranda Neubauer | Monday, March 12 2012
Tea Party activist group FreedomWorks for America is rolling out mobile voter canvassing and get-out-the-vote tools for supporters, it announced in a recent email.
Using the tool from the conservative-minded firm Political Gravity, FreedomWorks supporters are supposed to be able generate maps of doors knock on to find likely Republican voters and identifies folks who have cast ballots in three out of the past four Republican primary elections. Users of FreedomWorks' social network for Tea Party activists, Freedom Connector, will be able to access the app for selected campaigns where the organization has made an endorsement. Through the app, users who give their location get lists of nearby voters to contact and maps that trace a canvassing route through a neighborhood.
Read MoreUsing Voter Data, Evangelical Group's Casting a Net for Christian Voters
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, February 28 2012
NPR's All Things Considered's got an interesting story up today about United in Purpose, a data-mining operation looking to identify evangelical Christians who aren't registered to vote and turn them out at the polls. The group, United in Purpose, also promotes an online platform where anyone can sign up to knock on doors and make phone calls to likely Christians, encouraging them to vote. Read More
Facebook's Look at Which Voters Turned Out Tuesday
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, November 5 2010
As we've discussed, nearly 12 million people clicked Facebook's "I Voted" button on election day Tuesday. The nice thing about being Facebook's in-house data team is that you get to dig through those number and ... Read More