Category: Posts

  • Online community governance primer

    Online community governance primer

    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

  • Co-op handbook chapter

    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

  • Beautiful Solutions in YES!

    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

  • In the Wake of Campaign Financialization

    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?

  • Governable Spaces in Jacobin

    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

  • Boulder Weekly is going co-op

    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

  • Phoenix of Gaza in CPR

    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/

  • Zine arrival!

    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

  • Yancey Strickler on Looks Like New

    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/

  • Beyond demonstration projects

    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