“Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice” introduces the perspective of families, the parents, and other relatives who are uniquely affected by the systems that can determine the future of their children. Routinely, families are dismissed as spectators, at best, while judges, prosecutors, probation officers, and public defenders determine the fate of young people who enter the juvenile justice system. This report from the Data Center spells out how the professionals who turn the wheels of juvenile systems can learn from the experiences and thoughts of families, and how they can include them as active participants and partners.
Report that collates experiences from several online local journalism sites around the country. Among the survey respondents are the Voice of San Diego, baristanet and the local Berkeleyside website. Put out by J-Lab at American University, a project of the Knight Foundation.
This report from the Applied Research Center is relevant to both social justice organizations as well as the general public. The findings can help social justice organizations better understand the attitudes and motivations of engaged Millennials.
This paper from former MA board member Seeta Pena Ganghadjaran focuses on specific examples of commercial data profiling against the history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities.
A series of studies by John Dunbar and Jacob Fenton at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University on the links between poverty, rural life and lack of broadband access.
This report is a comprehensive compilation of data on how the Latino community is using mobile phones.
The compilation of the data indicates three major tendencies: Latinos are less likely to adopt broadband at home than other ethnic groups, are three times more likely than the general population to rely on mobile phones as their only means of Internet access, and are footing larger mobile phone bills than any other demographic group.
