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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative. (If If they even had the understanding to be able to do so, they'd lose.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Years ago I wrote a piece (" Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda ," 2015) about what would be an ideal approach to a truly ward-focused Councilmember election and governance platform, including having a dashboard on ward-specific data on traffic safety. Ward focused traffic safety programming.

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AWS announces low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns and committees

AWS Public Sector Blog

It is essential for election campaigns and committees to have access to the latest security services so they can mitigate risks against security threats at minimal cost. Learn more about how these AWS services can support election campaign cybersecurity.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning.