Research
Through Research, the Radical Communicators Network runs narrative experiments with RadComms members, Rising Majority member organizations, and other partners to understand mindsets and culture, shift collective behaviors, and bring more people into our movements.
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“Since joining RadComms, I’ve developed a different understanding of what it means to build a rigorous yet nimble body of workers on the Left. I have a lot of lessons on how to reach people across differences, cultivate a community aligned with movement values, and grow that sense of alignment and belonging every day.”
Bia Jackson, RadComms member and Leadership Team member
Our research with Rising Majority, Rising Narratives for Radical Futures, analyzes the media consumption of four values-distinct audience segments from Harmony Labs and looks at how the issues focused on in Rising Majority’s 2050 vision — multiracial democracy, regenerative economy, climate justice, care and solidarity, abolition, and beyond borders — appear in popular TV shows, podcasts and YouTube channels, informing the narrative waters everyday people are swimming in.
Inspired by Rising Narratives for Radical Futures research, The Radical Futures Lab was born in 2026 as a place for our network to practice and test our research in collaboration with the social movement Left. Our lab focuses on participatory action research, where community partners guide the questions we explore and our approach to answering them.
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
Ida B. Wells in Washington Bee (1892)