Category: Posts
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What are apps worth anymore?
An app used to mean something. Whatever “app” meant—Mobile first? Interactive website? Anything that runs on a computer?—it was the coin of the digital realm. Apps were useful for doing things, even necessary, and not everyone could make one. A working app signified significant investment, effort, and expertise. If someone bothered to go through the…
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Conflict Systems zine launch
For the past two years, my lab has been exploring how to create online spaces designed for a basic human activity: conflict. See what we’ve learned on August 12, when we release our new zine, Conflict Systems, at the Metagov Seminar: https://luma.com/vqlxb7dy
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Worker-Friendly Media cohort
Are you building a cooperative newsroom or media project? Apply to be part of Start.coop’s Accelerator for Worker-Friendly Media, including financial and technical support, plus a week with my lab here in Boulder. Learn more here: https://www.start.coop/accelerator
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Naim Aburradi on VR and genocide
Listen! My lab’s radio show this month features the extraordinary Dr. Naim Aburradi. He and his friends have risked their safety to document life in Gaza, with a 360-degree camera, before and since the ongoing genocide: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-can-vr-tell-the-story-of-genocide/ Gaza is so, so much more than a headline and a plume of smoke.
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Magnifica Humanitas takes
Compendium of my Magnifica Humanitas takes: The Dueling A.I. Apocalypses—and What Pope Leo Has to Say about Both https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/ Pope Leo XIV Compares AI to the Industrial Revolution—as New Alternatives to Big AI Firms Take Shape https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249 Three Questions on AI for You, from Pope Leo https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-questions-on-ai-for-you-from-pope-leo/
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Pope Leo and the AI apocalypses
New in America, I argue that a central thread of Pope Leo’s encyclical is to counter the secular apocalypses that have spread in AI culture: https://www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2026/05/29/the-dueling-a-i-apocalypses-and-what-pope-leo-has-to-say-about-both/
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Deadline extended: “Why We Come Together”
Deadline extended to May 30! Submit your abstracts for “Why We Come Together: Media, Religion, and Community” and come visit us in Boulder this October, along with Fred Moten, Jen Deerinwater, and more: https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/why-we-come-together-media-religion-and-community
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The “construction sites” of Magnifica Humanitas
Just out in The Conversation, I explore how Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical could reshape the AI industry, akin to what his predecessor did in the Gilded Age: https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-take-shape-283249
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Student AI UX
“Students can experience AI models as not just something someone else does for you but something that can happen in your own community”: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/
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Open call: Liberatory Media Residency
Media makers, spiritual innovators, activists—especially in Colorado: Please consider applying for our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s $25,000 Liberatory Media Residency for next academic year. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/04/17/open-call-liberatory-media-residency