Organized by SFMOMA's Deena Chalabi, Dominic Willsdon, and Stella Lochman, «Public Knowledge» addresses recent shifts in the Bay Area resulting from the technology industry boom and how those changes affect cultural memory.7 The boom has led to
rising socioeconomic inequality, pushing families from their traditional communities and pricing out cultural spaces.
Twenge and colleagues W. Keith Campbell and Nathan Carter, both of the University of Georgia, found that as income
inequality and poverty
rose, public trust declined, indicating that
socioeconomic factors may play an important role in driving this downward trend in public trust: