Category: Posts
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Co-op handbook chapter
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
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Beautiful Solutions in YES!
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
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In the Wake of Campaign Financialization
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?
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Governable Spaces in Jacobin
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
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Boulder Weekly is going co-op
Our local alt-weekly is going employee owned. Should yours? https://coloradomedia.substack.com/p/boulder-weekly-journalists-want-to
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Phoenix of Gaza in CPR
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/
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Zine arrival!
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
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Yancey Strickler on Looks Like New
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/
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Beyond demonstration projects
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
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Democracy against Democracy
Originally appeared at Flaming Hydra. I am a professor who has spent the past decade arguing that there should be more democracy on the Internet. There is a certain convenience in this position. Democracy can sound either radical or respectable, depending on who’s listening. Who would disagree with democracy? But then, when I gave talks…