About me
Eric Gordon studies technology and public engagement, with a specific focus on institutional trust and governance. He specializes in collaborative research and design processes, and has served as an expert advisor for local and national governments, as well as NGOs around the world, designing responsive processes that help organizations transform to meet their stated values. He is the author of over 50 articles and chapters on media and urbanism, and the author or co-author of three previous books on the topic: Meaningful Inefficiencies (Oxford University Press, 2020), Net Locality (Blackwell, 2011), and The Urban Spectator (Dartmouth, 2010). He is the co-editor of Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (MIT Press, 2016) and Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry (Palgrave, 2021). He is a professor in the College of Communication and director of the Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact at Boston University.
