{"607259":{"#nid":"607259","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E, professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E, July\/August 2018 issue, article, \u0026ldquo;What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America.\u0026rdquo; The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are some of the things\u0026nbsp;I heard about in my neighborhood over the past year: A thunderstorm downed a tree, blocking a central road; a shadowy agent called \u0026ldquo;the night clipper\u0026rdquo; arose, surreptitiously cutting overhanging bushes while unsuspecting property owners slept; several dogs and cats were lost, found, or \u0026ldquo;on the loose,\u0026rdquo; whatever that means for a cat; a federal-grand-jury-summons telephone scam struck; someone sought belly-dancing classes, an apparent alternative to Pilates; and, innumerable times, people deposited bags of dog poop into lawn-clipping and recycling canisters at the curb. All of this news came courtesy of the social-media service Nextdoor. On its website and app, people can post recommendations, updates, and warnings about their building, block, or neighborhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/07\/nextdoor-american-communities\/561746\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2018-06-22 15:00:03","changed_gmt":"2018-06-22 15:00:03","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/07\/nextdoor-american-communities\/561746\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-06-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=2iLPi4HX"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"178398","name":"Nextdoor"},{"id":"167543","name":"social media"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}