Published inHarmony Labs·Mar 26, 2021A Poverty of Attention: Poverty and Economic Mobility in the MediaFor the past year at Harmony Labs, we’ve been examining the media consumption of four values-based audiences to identify and track the narratives about poverty and economic mobility they interact with daily, across news, entertainment, music, and social media. Here are four findings, suggested by our first-generation models. Most of…Narrative4 min readNarrative4 min read
Published inHarmony Labs·Feb 26, 2021What’s a Narrative? Update #1The Narrative Observatory wants to help people skillfully channel the immense power of story, audience, and narrative to shape our future. To do that, we need to understand what story, audience, and narrative actually are and how they interact. We need a theory, a model that works. Over the last…Narrative3 min readNarrative3 min read
Published inHarmony Labs·Jan 19, 2021New Story Homes Wanted: A Case for Smaller, Nobler LiesThe storming of the Capitol was one more violent event in a series of violent events that will continue, after President Trump leaves office. These events proceed logically from a system of belief, a story that presents America as having been “stolen.” And not just the 2020 election. Since 2008…Narrative5 min readNarrative5 min read
