{"id":15565,"date":"2015-08-25T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15565"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:26:04","slug":"debating-continued-importance-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15565","title":{"rendered":"debating the continued importance of institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, at the Boston Civic Media <a href=\"http:\/\/bostoncivic.media\/metricsandmethods2015\/\">conference<\/a>, I was part of a panel with Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/civic.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Center for Civic Media<\/a>,\u00a0Christine Gaspar, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/welcometocup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Center for Urban Pedagogy<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Doris Sommer, professor and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/culturalagents.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Agents Initiative<\/a> at Harvard University. Among other topics, we debated the continued importance of institutions in a world increasingly characterized by loose networks. I took an institutionalist (maybe even an unrepentantly\u00a0paleo-institutionalist)\u00a0line. Boston Civic Media has put up a <a href=\"http:\/\/bostoncivic.media\/foundations\/\">brief and cogent summary<\/a> of the panel as well as the full audio, which is\u00a0below. See also &#8220;<a title=\"Permalink to why I still believe in institutions\" href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15358\" rel=\"bookmark\">why I still believe in institutions<\/a>,&#8221; which I posted immediately after.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/216167151&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, at the Boston Civic Media conference, I was part of a panel with Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media,\u00a0Christine Gaspar, director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy,\u00a0and\u00a0Doris Sommer, professor and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University. Among other topics, we debated the continued importance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-internet-and-public-issues","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15585,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions\/15585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}