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I just posted a super-simple how-to guide for online community governance—basically just inviting communities to start with some important, often-neglected basics. If you know anyone who might appreciate this, please share! https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/12/18/how-build-governable-spaces-online-communities

Just published! A book chapter with Morshed Mannan and Tara Merk on “Cooperative Online Communities,” open acess for all: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003449850-32/cooperative-online-communities-morshed-mannan-nathan-schneider-tara-merk

Get a taste of our new book, Beautiful Solutions, in YES! Magazine, featuring excerpts and a reflection by my co-editor Eli Feghali: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/12/10/the-power-of-beautiful-solutions

This idea keeps sticking with me—that we have just seen a transformation in US national politics, from “campaign finance” to “campaign financialization,” from funding campaigns to campaigns as vehicles for explicit investment and speculation. https://nathanschneider.info/2024/11/the-age-of-campaign-financialization-is-here/ Does this seem right?

I’m grateful for this Jacobin review essay by Robert Gorwa that features my recent book Governable Spaces: https://jacobin.com/2024/12/internet-democracy-musk-zuckerberg-profits Read the book for yourself, free here: https://www.ucpress.edu/read/books/governable-spaces

Our local alt-weekly is going employee owned. Should yours? https://coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-weekly-journalists-want-to

AIRED TODAY: Colorado Public Radio reports on the extraordinary work of our student Naim Aburaddi, whose Phoenix of Gaza XR project has documented Gaza, before and after this war. Experiencing this footage has shaped me forever. https://www.cpr.org/2024/12/03/cu-palestinian-student-gaza-vr-project/

Just arrived, two beautiful boxes from Radix Media co-op full of copies of the newest MEDLab zine! Download and print yours here: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/11/08/change-cards-governance-transitions-open-source-communities

Don’t miss this fascinating new interview with Kickstarter & Metalabel co-founder Yancey Strickler on my lab’s podcast, Looks Like New: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/is-online-life-heading-into-dark-forests/

In this episode of The Ownership Economy podcast, I throw down on why I think the mutualist movement has lost its ambition—and how we can rediscover a vision beyond mere demonstration projects: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/theownershipeconomy/episodes/Episode-076—Beyond-Demonstration-Projects-Scaling-Shared-Ownership-for-Impact-with-Nathan-Schneider-e2r5gn9