Marjo van der WoerdJan 7
Ik ben een echte 'joiner', (actief) lid van een heel aantal verenigingen. #putnam #bowlingalone www.vprogids.nl/documentaire... (2/2)

Zonder ons, geen wij: vrolijke...
Zonder ons, geen wij: vrolijke docu over de vele voordelen van lid zijn van een club

Zonder ons, geen wij legt uit waarom je lid moet worden van een club – voor je eigen gezondheid en die van de democratie.

VPRO
Steam Powered Frisbee 🥏Dec 4

souvenir from the 10th Annual Convention of Matchcover Collectors, in 1950

The convention lasted three days! They clearly had lots to discuss 😆 21st century geek/fan culture is fine; but I feel like this is the type of social life that has been lost.

Yet here I am posting it on the Internet rather than inviting everyone over to my house, so I'm not part of the solution....

#fandom #boston #collection #collectibles #souvenirs #collectors #massachusetts #1950s #conventions #bowlingalone

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Nov 26

We encourage listening not just to 7-mins but entire 35:26 interview by Steve Inskeep of #NationalPublicRadio w/ Governor Spencer Cox at Western Governors Conference, for Nov 25 #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615342/spencer-cox-utah-trump-charlie-kirk-civility

On USA social change 31:56-35:26.

On Artificial Intelligence 24:46- 31:50— a snippet @ 30:49:
“We’ve gotten into this mode, I’d say on both the right and left, where we’ve become subservient to technology. Instead of technology serving us, we’ve become slaves to the #technology. And I think that’s going to happen with #AI if we’re not very careful….We’ve started an AI policy lab in Utah, it’s the #first of its kind anywhere in the world, where we have experts now, in the government, working directly with the companies, to make sure their products are safe, passing legislation that gives them a safe harbor so that they can do what they wanna do, as long as it protects our #people.”
#DataScience #connection #SocialMedia #Meta #ChatBots #loneliness #BowlingAlone #MentalHealth #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #job

bsmall2Oct 30
> Robert Putnam argued in his landmark 2000 book, Bowling Alone, our civic infrastructure had disintegrated. The once-conformist crowds had dispersed, leaving behind a social void. Hunger for peer approval may have been misguided, but having no peers was far worse.
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/solo-dining-communal-meals-us
#BowlingAlone #EatingAlone #AtomizationAlone
#MeaganDay
/HT #JacobinMag IG
Americans Are Abandoning the Communal Meal

Consuming food all by oneself is an anomaly in the history of human civilization, a deviation from millennia of tradition. And more and more Americans are doing it.

ChadamsSep 26

A brief meditation on social capital.

#joinordiefilm #socialcapital #socialscience #bowlingalone

https://www.chadams.me/blog/2025-09-26-join-or-die/

Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Feb 13, 2025

Fascinating

JOIN OR DIE: A film about why you should join a club...and why the fate of America depends on it. 🎳 🎞️

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKgQr6fhbxE

#RobertPutnam #JoinOrDieFilm #JoinOrDie #SocialCapital #BowlingAlone

OFFICIAL TRAILER | JOIN OR DIE

YouTube
william.maggosSep 15, 2024

Until we start feeling like we're all in this together, nothing else is fixable. #BowlingAlone #uspol

https://pca.st/episode/6210bffa-88c6-4efc-9784-8678349527da

Robert Putnam on Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and Making America Social Again - Offline with Jon Favreau

Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a different kind of Sunday show. A place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology & the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Megan Rapinoe spark curiosity and introspection around the various ways our extremely online existence shapes everything from the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline. New episodes drop every Sunday morning, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Show threadretsilJul 13, 2024
@deadline there is a good interview on this in #nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/magazine/robert-putnam-interview.html #bowlingalone
‘The Interview’: Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely

The author of “Bowling Alone” warned us about social isolation and its effect on democracy a quarter century ago. Things have only gotten worse.

The New York Times
DeadlineJun 4, 2024

Abramorama Acquires Documentary ‘Join Or Die’ For North American Theatrical Release
#Acquisitions #Documentary #News #Abramorama #BowlingAlone #JoinorDie #PeteDavis #RebeccaDavis

https://deadline.com/2024/06/join-or-die-documentary-abramorama-1235958975/

Abramorama Acquires Documentary ‘Join Or Die’ For North American Theatrical Release

Abramorama takes North American theatrical rights to 'Join or Die,' a documentary about the loneliness epidemic and Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" research.

Deadline
Show threadJoey de Villa 🪗Mar 29, 2024

Getting a screening here will be a group effort. Who’s with me? (3/3)

#Tampa #TampaBay #film #community #BowlingAlone #isolation #SocialIsolation #SocialCapital #society

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2024/03/29/lets-get-a-screening-of-join-or-die-in-tampa/

Let’s get a screening of “Join or Die” in Tampa! - The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club — and why the fate of America may depend on it. And I want to get it screened in Tampa — at the Tampa Theatre. Here’s the trailer for the film: Join or Die is a feature documentary about community in America, as […]

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century