Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.