Category: Posts
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Now out: Collective Governance for AI
AI doesn’t have to be run only by and for a few enormous companies. Just out from Metagov! A digital zine listing the MANY ways that people are trying to make AI more governable, accountable, and community-controlled: https://metagov.org/cg-ai/
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On network nations with Audrey Tang
Over the weekend, the GreenPill podcast dropped this conversation I had with one of the governance technologists I admire most, former Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang: https://pod.link/1609313639/episode/NWRjNTkzZjEtNzczMS00Zjk1LTljMTUtYWQwZWRlMWFmM2Nl It is pretty sci-fi. But in times like these, sci-fi is at least part of what we need.
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Deadline approaching: abstracts on AI imaginaries
Abstracts due on 12/1: I’m editing a special issue of the Int’l Journal of Communication on “the imaginative landscape of AI.” Help us map the imaginaries of this stuff beyond the tech industry fluff: https://comai.space/en/call-for-papers-the-imaginative-landscape-of-ai-visions-positions-conflicts-2/
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“Are Protocols Elite?” in Rythms
For a taste of what I’ve been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: “Are Protocols Elite?” Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/11/06/rhythms-fall-2025-counter-media
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Open Social Network Cookbook
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/11/03/open-social-network-cookbook
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At Columbia on attention
How can we calibrate online democracy for the attention economy? On November 5, I’ll be doing a virtual lecture for Columbia University on my new co-authored paper, “Online Governance Surfaces and Attention Economies.”Register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DZfEoh2lTva7c5kdALiYzQ#/registrationRead the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/cdrmp_v1
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Open Social Handbook release event
During the past year, my lab hosted a cohort of communities around the world adopting open social networks. Together, they’ve created a beautiful cookbook full of their lessons and reflections. Come to the launch event on November 3: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/launch-event-open-social-incubator
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Other Networks at Metagov Seminar
At this week’s Metagov Seminar, join me to celebrate my colleague Lori Emerson’s gorgeous new book, Other Networks, a sourcebook of stories and designs for networks that are not the internet: https://luma.com/4kfjgd6a
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Remembering Grace Lee Boggs
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Grace Lee Boggs, one of the great guides of my life. In her spirit, let us always keep asking ourselves, “What time is it on the clock of the world?” If you’re in Detroit, consider going to this.
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Ivan Illich’s grave
Today, a last-minute pilgrimage in Bremen to the resting place of Ivan Illich, my guide for so many years. In a cemetery full of stone markers and manicured flowers, his is a simple wood cross in a patch of vernacular herbs.