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The Rise of 
 Monitorial Citizenship Erhardt Graeff — @erhardt MIT Center for Civic Media & Olin College of Engineering DML 2018 Ignite Erhardt Graeff � 1 August 1, 2018

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Monitorial Citizenship is a form of civic engagement in which people collect information about their surroundings or track issues of local or personal interest in order to improve their communities and pursue justice. dissertation: bit.ly/graeffdiss 
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Public trust in government near historic lows Do you trust the % who trust the govt in Washington always or most of the time government in 100 Washington to do Nixon Reagan Bush Clinton G.W. Bush Carter Ford Obama Trump the right thing all or 75 most of the time? 50 25 Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Moving average Individual polls . Pew Research. 2017. Public Trust in Government: 1958–2017 . PEW RESEARCH CENTER

2017 2018 Trust General Population General Population Trust Index (60-100) A World Global Global 48 47 Neutral (50-59) 72 India 74 China Distrust of Distrust 69 Indonesia 71 Indonesia (1-49) 67 China 68 India 60 Singapore 66 UAE Average trust in institutions, 60 UAE 58 Singapore general population, 2017 vs. 2018 53 The Netherlands 54 Mexico 52 Mexico 54 The Netherlands 52 U.S. 53 Malaysia 50 Colombia 49 Canada 49 Canada 47 Argentina 48 Brazil 47 Colombia 48 Italy 47 Spain Biggest changes in 48 Malaysia 46 Turkey Global Trust Index remains at distruster level 45 Argentina 45 Hong Kong U.S. -9 44 Hong Kong 44 Brazil 20 of 28 markets are distrusters, up 1 from 2017 44 Spain 44 S. Korea 43 Turkey 43 Italy China +7 42 Australia 43 U.S. 42 S. Africa 41 Germany S. Korea +6 41 Germany 41 Sweden 40 France 40 Australia UAE +6 40 U.K. 40 France 38 S. Korea 39 Poland Italy -5 37 Sweden 39 U.K. 36 Ireland 38 Ireland Trust decline in the U.S. is Source: 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer. 35 Japan 38 S. Africa The Trust Index is an average of a market's trust in the institutions the steepest ever measured of government, business, media and NGOs. General population, 35 Poland 37 Japan 28-market global total. 6 34 Russia 36 Russia

Contemporary youth see living in a country that is government democratically as less essential Foa, R. & Mounk, Y. 2017. The Signs of Deconsolidation. Journal of Democracy , 28(1), 5–16.

Monitorial Citizenship Core Practices • collecting information • sharing stories and insights • coordinating with networks of other civic actors • pursuing accountability for institutions and elite individuals and their perceived responsibilities DML 2018 Ignite Erhardt Graeff � 10 August 1, 2018

Example: Public Lab

Example: Promise Tracker

Examples: SeeClickFix & Deera

Example: Hollaback!

Examples: WeCopwatch and #BlackLivesMatter

The Rise of Monitorial Citizenship is… a digital and civic literacy issue

The Rise of Monitorial Citizenship is… an inequality and empowerment issue

Recommendations for Educators • teach information gathering and analysis (media/data literacy & YPAR) • teach persuasive storytelling • teach community organizing online and offline • teach democracy from the perspective of citizen power DML 2018 Ignite Erhardt Graeff � 18 August 1, 2018

@erhardt erhardt@erhardtgraeff.com erhardtgraeff.com DML 2018 Ignite Erhardt Graeff � 20 August 1, 2018