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Calling all media-makers working at the intersection of religion and social change! Apply for a $25,000 residency to be part of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture for the next academic year: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/04/07/open-call-counter-media-residency

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a Beautiful Solutions launch event in Denver on May Day at the great Black-owned bookstore Shop at Matter—find the discount code in the text: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-for-beautiful-solutions-a-toolbox-for-liberation-tickets-1316548374629

I’m grateful to be back on the Reimagining the Internet podcast with Ethan Zuckerman to talk about the prospects and challenges of open social media: https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/

We need a “politics of yes.” In a new interview at Nonprofit Quarterly, my Beautiful Solutions co-editors describe our attempts at the “nonextractive storytelling” that our movements need right now: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/beautiful-solutions-a-conversation-with-eli-feghali-and-rachel-plattus/

For the first time in my life, I am running for something. The national co-op association, NCBA CLUSA, is in a decisive time of crisis and opportunity, and I feel the call to serve: https://ncbaclusa.coop/blog/meet-the-candidates-running-for-election-to-the-2025-ncba-clusa-board-of-directors/ If you’re a member, I hope you’ll vote, and I’d love to connect about our shared hopes for the movement.

I just learned that TODAY is the release date of the book by one of my great heroes, Coraline Ada Ehmke. She is an engineer who created the most widely adopted code of conduct in tech, and her wisdom and courage overflow everywhere she goes. Get it now: https://thehammerbook.com

Join Diana Daly and me for a session on our work about “Textbooks as Evolutionary Media: The Governance of Open Educational Resources” on March 4—register here: https://colorado.libcal.com/calendar/events/OERPanel25

On March 11, join me for a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ encyclical on “integral ecology.” I’ll be echoing Francis’s insistence that, despite what it might seem, “Truly, much can be done!” https://www.jcu.edu/livable-future

Are you passionate about teaching media literacy? My lovely little department is hiring TWO teaching professors in multi-year, renewable positions: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Teaching-Professor-of-Media-Studies/61458