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The Case for Community in the Real World

A New American Awakening
How the chaos of the phone-based life is giving rise to a quiet revolution in civic life—and what it will take to make it last.
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Sam Pressler
 and 
Pete Davis
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The Real User Interface: Recovering Our Neighborhoods
Although the technological forces driving us apart are powerful, the forces needed to hold us together are right in front of us.
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Seth Kaplan
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The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life
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Darren Whitehead
34
Four Lessons for Raising Resilient Children in the Digital Age
What secular families can learn from faith-based communities
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Seth Kaplan
 and 
Caroline Bryk
32
The Upstream Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis is the Loss of Community
We've forgotten what community really means.
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Seth Kaplan
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Neighborhoods that Nurture: Why The Play-Based Childhood Requires More Than Just Putting Down the Phone
It's easier to create “play-based childhoods” if we can simultaneously create vibrant “community-based childhoods” to support them.
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Seth Kaplan
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The Great Deterioration of Local Community Was A Major Driver of The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.
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Zach Rausch
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