Mentions, appearances, and attacks in various outlets.
“the intersection of democracy and technology”
Utopias Podcast, November 14, 2024
“No, AI is not out fixing potholes: How hype can undermine human labor”
Technical.ly, October 20, 2024
“The Role Cooperatives Play in Shaping the Next Economy”
Everything Co-op, October 17, 2024
Vitalik: An Ethereum Story, September 18, 2024
“Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane”
Accidental Gods, August 7, 2024
“Mass Adoption Would Ruin Crypto. Keep It a Niche”
CoinDesk, June 14, 2024
“Participation in a Decentralized World?”
Techquitable, May 12, 2024
“Governable Spaces: Designing Democracy for the Internet”
The Blockchain Socialist, May 6, 2024
“This Bitcoin Halving Is Different. But Is It ‘Priced In’?“
CoinDesk, April 18, 2024
“Democratic Design For Online Spaces“
Techdirt Podcast, April 9, 2024
“TikTok Ban Ignores Larger Issue of Consumer Data Privacy“
Counterpoint, April 8, 2024
“Nathan Schneider on Democratic Design for Online Life“
Tech Policy Press, April 6, 2024
“US threat to ban TikTok prompts call for democratic ownership”
Co-op News, April 3, 2024
“Building Democratic Governance on the Internet”
Frontiers of Commoning, April 1, 2024
“We’ve Seen Breakdowns of Trust”
CoinDesk, March 26, 2024
“Can the Public Own Giant Tech Companies Who Operate as Monopolies?“
Background Briefing, March 21, 2024
“Democracy is in crisis”
KGNU radio, March 8, 2024
“How to revive democracy in digital spaces”
Project Liberty, March 5, 2024
“Author Nathan Schneider talks about his book examining online networks and democracy”
The Colorado Sun, March 1, 2024
“Nathan Schneider on his new book”
Sustain, March 1, 2024
“Nathan Schneider”
Team Human, February 28, 2024
“How the Catholic Worker movement stays grassroots online”
US Catholic, February 27, 2024
“Nathan Schneider looks for ways to democratise online spaces”
Co-operative News, February 24, 2024
“Is Digital Democracy Doomed?”
University of Colorado Boulder, February 20, 2024
“Crypto was started to address a collapse of trust. Can it be trusted?”
Christian Science Monitor, February 1, 2024
“End of year Q&A”
Co-operative News, December 29, 2023
“Code Is Not (Always) Law”
CoinDesk, December 7, 2023
“How we’ve enshittified the tech economy”
Prospect, October 4, 2023
“Why DAOs and crypto need a policy platform”
Ownership Economy, September 14, 2023
“cooperative law has been like a straitjacket”
5280, August 2023
“How User-Designed Social Media Could Create Healthier Online Communities”
Tech Policy Press, July 11, 2023
“How are we overcoming the challenges that crypto is facing?”
GM!, June 23, 2023
“Why DAOs (and crypto) need a Policy Platform”
The Ownership Economy, June 15, 2023
“India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms”
The New Yorker, April 26, 2023
“Using Mastodon can feel like eating your vegetables”
The Guardian, April 18, 2023
“Overthrowing The Network State: Dictatorship by Tech CEO”
The Blockchain Socialist, March 12, 2023
“What is democracy?”
After the Creative Economy, December 6, 2022
“Tech solutionism, mutual aid and cooperatives”
Spark with Nora Young, November 25, 2022
“So You’re Thinking of Quitting Twitter”
5280, November 14, 2022
“Ownership As Citizenship”
Building at the Edges, November 4, 2022
“Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover”
The Guardian, November 2, 2022
“‘exit to community’ offers startups a different path”
PitchBook, October 21, 2022
“The Battle for the Soul of the Web”
The Atlantic, October 4, 2022
“Unfinished Live with Nathan Schneider”
Green Pill Podcast, September 29, 2022
“Crypto pulled off its big upgrade”
The Washington Post, September 17, 2022
“Democracy as a Design Space”
The Blockchain Socialist, July 31, 2022
“die Firma den Kunden übergeben”
Tagesanzeiger, June 25, 2022
“Proving God”
Love Thy Neighborhood, May 24, 2022
“Expanding the ownership of communities”
Web3 Revolution, May 18, 2022
“Our investment ecosystem prioritizes destruction”
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World , November 15, 2022
“The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto’s Future”
TIME, March 18, 2022
“Equity, ownership and crypto”
Securities by Lux Capital, March 12, 2022
“Everything for Everyone”
Diffractions Collective, March 5, 2022
“Could Tech Startups Became Community-Owned Co-Ops?”
LA Progressive, February 9, 2022
“Cryptoeconomics, Economic Democracy, and Networked Governance”
The Ownership Economy, February 8, 2022
“Culture and Incentivization”
Smart Contract Research Forum, February 3, 2022
on blockchain and social movements
KPFA, January 15, 2022
“Why don’t users get a say in how platforms operate?”
Reimagining the Internet, January 5, 2022
“exit to community”
Stories of Growth, January 6, 2022
“We Need to Build More Than Tokenomics”
Encrypted Economy, January 2022
“governance innovation happening in DAO-land”
Shareable, December 21, 2021
“This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything”
The Laura Flanders Show, December 12, 2021
“The Field Guide to Digital and/as Public Space”
The Bentway, November 30, 2021
“NFTs with Nathan Schneider and Cory Doctorow”
Upstream, November 24, 2021
“Mother Nature, Shareholder”
Grow, November 2021
“a new era of employee-owned companies”
Shareable, October 18, 2021
“Los latinos e inmigrantes que ocuparon Wall Street”
City Limits, September 30, 2021
“Five things I wish Web2 had addressed early to protect human rights”
Starling Lab, September 2021
“Keep the internet public. The market will thank us later”
Commons Network, September 27, 2021
“On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics”
Vitalik Buterin’s blog, September 26, 2021
“forms of decentralization according to Nathan Schneider”
New_Public Magazine, September 23, 2021
“Did Occupy Wall Street Make a Difference?”
The Nation, September 17, 2021
“Exit to Community for Crypto-Networks”
Forefront, July 23, 2021
“on Platform Cooperativism”
Power Plays, July 7, 2021
“Silicon Valley has caught wind of the benefits of collectivism”
The Baffler, July 1, 2021
“the intersection of DAO’s and co-ops”
Cointelegraph, June 22, 2021
“The Co-op Movement Is Taking On Big Tech”
The American Prospect, June 24, 2021
“From Platform Coops to Exit to Community”
Boundaryless, June 14, 2021
“The Governance of Digital Spaces”
Mint & Burn, May 4, 2021
“protesting is a spiritual practice”
Jesuitical, April 23, 2021
“Talking about NFTs”
Columbia Journalism Review, April 7, 2021
“the true community”
Startups for Good, March 29, 2021
“illusory democratisation”
Interdependence, December 15, 2020
“Exit to Community and Personal Tokens”
Rally Network, November 24, 2020
“we don’t want a GoFundMe society”
Columbia Journalism Review, Winter 2020
“Inside Defector Media”
Business Insider, October 13, 2020
“The Economics of Pope Francis”
America, October 7, 2020
“Can co-ops calm the social media storm?”
Co-operative News, October 1, 2020
“Cooperatives and Digital Governance”
Frontiers of Commoning, September 30, 2020
“Why ‘Exit to Community’?”
Journal of Beautiful Business, September 22, 2020
“Open-Source Governance, Meet Feminist Economics”
Built In, September 14, 2020
“Exit to Community”
Rework Podcast, September 8, 2020
“a digital and physical zine”
TechCrunch, August 31, 2020
“the problem is governance”
Built In, August 25, 2020
“Community Fridges Movement Online”
Cheddar, August 24, 2020
“Don’t be Afraid of Openness”
Plural, August 17, 2020
“Play By the Rules, or Create New Ones”
Open Collective, August 6, 2020
“The Meaning of ‘Tyranny of Openness’”
Sustain podcast, July 17, 2020
“A new business accelerator”
Brown Alumni Magazine, June–August 2020
“Pandemic Organizers Are Co-opting Productivity Software”
The Atlantic, May 28, 2020
“Pope Francis Boosts the Universal Basic Wage”
Interfaith Voices, April 17, 2020
“#AfterCorona: Advancing Urban Society”
Urban Political, March 31, 2020
“exiting to community is one alternative”
TechCrunch, February 25, 2020
“activist strategy”
Activist Graduate School, February 7, 2020
“scholarship across popular and academic writing”
CU Boulder, February 3, 2020
“Talking about Antitrust”
Columbia Journalism Review, January 29, 2020
“Trust busting”
Co-operative News, January 8, 2020
“O futuro da economia será compartilhado?”
Baixa Cultura, November 7, 2019
“how rural communities have done entrepreneurship differently”
Shareable, September 19, 2019
“Co-operative Power”
RSA Journal, August 28, 2019
“When Co-ops Meet DAOs”
Nebula, August 22, 2019
“BAR Book Forum”
Black Agenda Report, August 14, 2019
“The Human Side of Technology”
Offscreen, July 28, 2019
“slow interview”
Columbia Journalism Review, May 13, 2019
“Should a Colorado library publish local news?”
Columbia Journalism Review, May 10, 2019
“Occupy ‘subverted itself and imploded according to its own logic’”
Vox, April 30, 2019
“What if Facebook were owned by its users?”
Mozilla Internet Health Report, April 24, 2019
“Colorado co-ops seeing a revival”
The Denver Post, March 15, 2019
“the WeChat playbook”
OneZero, March 14, 2019
“Getting Past Good vs. Bad Cartels”
Massive Markets, January 31, 2019
“Can Co-ops Actually Begin to Reverse the Nation’s Inequality Tide?”
Nonprofit Quarterly, January 14, 2019
“Will this model solve income inequality?”
Big Think, January 9, 2019
“creating cooperatively owned online platforms”
Harper’s, January 2019
“Co-ops: Economic Democracy”
Alternative Radio, December 2, 2018
“antitrust was born out of compromise”
Longreads, December 2018
“bipartisan support for expanding employee-ownership”
HuffPo, November 27, 2018
“decentralizing everything never seems to work”
Decentralize This!, November 13, 2018
“Co-op conference at CU”
Daily Camera, November 7, 2018
“Worker-Led, for Public Interest”
The Laura Flanders Show, October 16, 2018
“Nathan Schneider positions cooperative businesses as both radical and traditional”
Fast Company, September 12, 2018
“a new co-operative commonwealth”
Co-operative News, September 29, 2018
“A Place Where It’s Easier To Be Good”
Team Human, September 26, 2018
“Nathan Schneider on the Next Economy”
CounterSpin (FAIR), September 21, 2018
“The Case for Cooperative Business”
The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC), September 19, 2018
“the Cooperative Movement Is Surging”
Democracy Now!, September 18, 2018
on the anniversary of Occupy
Stand up! with Pete Dominick (SiriusXM), September 17, 2018
“Discussion on the Middle Class”
Book TV (C-SPAN), September 16, 2018
“capitalism takes too much credit”
Tapestry (CBC Radio), September 14, 2018
“new book on co-op movement”
CU Boulder Today, September 11, 2018
“The Five Best Literary Events This Week”
Westword, September 10, 2018
“Pope Francis’ radical faithfulness to tradition”
Salt+Light, August 2, 2018
“a major step in the right direction”
Aurora Sentinel, July 19, 2018
“Open source hasn’t made tech more open”
Engadget, July 11, 2018
“Why we should end the cult of the presidency”
America This Week, June 20, 2018
“Platform Co-ops are a New Way of Working”
In the Mesh, May 17, 2018
“the danger here is in how little we actually know about what’s going on”
Mic, April 17, 2018
“#DeleteFacebook Is Just the Beginning”
Fortune, April 16, 2018
“Can Social Media Be Saved?”
The New York Times, March 28, 2018
“business that is accountable to the people”
New Hampshire Public Radio, March 26, 2018
“Co-ops as Economic Model”
The Harvard Crimson, March 7, 2018
“the new co-op weavers”
Co-operative News, March 5, 2018
“a populism of hope”
Between the Lines, February 21, 2018
“a proposal that can solve Facebook’s crisis”
Politiken, January 18, 2018
“Alternatives for Internet Access”
Scientific American, January 8, 2018
“Turning Twitter Into The People’s Platform”
To the Best of Our Knowledge, December 23, 2017
“Glaring Loopholes”
Scientific American, December 20, 2017
“Net Neutrality Digital Roundtable”
Office of Congressman Jared Polis, December 12, 2017
“The Francis Impact”
Salt + Light, November 2017
“How to make the most of platform co-ops”
Co-operative News, October 6, 2017
“they turned towards the platform economy out of need and hope”
Reinvent, September 12, 2017
“a cooperative decentralized social network”
Open Collective blog, August 28, 2017
“a diversity of projects trying to address financing”
Shareable, August 28, 2017
“the grassroots effort to rescue Twitter”
Think Progress, July 14, 2017
“the media economy that we need”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2017
“the interest of users and the interest of investors”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 2017
“people are realizing [Twitter] is akin to a public utility”
Salon, May 21, 2017
“accountability baked into their DNA”
Co-operative News, May 2, 2017
“Shared ownership…is really the best path for Twitter”
Recode, April 9, 2017
“a step away from net neutrality”
Longmont Times-Call, March 29, 2017
“Opening up the internet”
Innovation Hub (WGBH), February 9, 2017
“The future of democratic business”
Future Tech Podcast, January 16, 2017
“Twitter should be run by (and for) its fans”
Quartz, December 21, 2016
“apps don’t have the workers’ best interest built in”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 16, 2016
“Build democracy and it spreads like a virus”
openDemocracy, November 23, 2016
“a plan to turn control over to the users”
The Takeaway (WNYC), November 8, 2016
“For Nathan Schneider, the future of Twitter is the Green Bay Packers”
WIRED, November 7, 2016
“Des internautes se portent candidats au rachat de Twitter”
Le Figaro, October 21, 2016
“Nutzer träumen von Twitter-Übernahme”
Der Spiegel, October 12, 2016
“the gig economy creates ‘atomized and individualized participants’”
Shareable, October 11, 2016
“economics, too, as a medium for creativity”
Shareable, October 11, 2016
“media, movements and building democracy into online platforms”
The Rapidian (WYCE), October 11, 2016
“Proposal: turn Twitter into a user-owned co-op”
Boing Boing, October 4, 2016
“Twitter should huddle with the Green Bay Packers”
MarketWatch, September 30, 2016
“A New Vision for the Internet”
Rising Up with Sonali, September 13, 2016
“What are platform cooperatives?”
iNews, August 30, 2016
“Co-ops and the new economy”
Big Ideas, July 21, 2016
“Internet culture needs to learn from co-ops”
STIR, Summer 2016
“The Internet of Ownership”
Renegade Economists, June 9, 2016
“Start-up co-operatives take on the Uber economy”
Sydney Morning Herald, June 7, 2016
“a guest of the Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation”
Melbourne Catholic, June 6, 2016
“one big Uber in every space”
Equal Times, June 6, 2016
“The Activist Who Stole Over Half a Million Dollars” (photos)
Vice, June 1, 2016
“Co-operatives aren’t co-operatives unless they co-operate with each other”
Imperica, May 23, 2016
“the Occupy movement and its legacy”
POPULISMUS Interventions, May 2016
“you could imagine Uber replaced by an open-source app”
The Daily Dot, February 28, 2016
“The story of the Internet has been one of disappointment after disappointment”
The Washington Post, December 26, 2015
“The Pope on climate change and economic inequality”
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coan (WHYY), September 24, 2015
“a threat to the current economic order”
The Washington Post, September 23, 2015
“Pope Francis and economy”
Reuters, September 23, 2015
“Pope Francis at the White House”
4 O’Clock Report w/Jon Wiener (KPFK), September 23, 2015
“Four years on impact of Occupy Wall Street continues”
TRTWorld, September 17, 2015
“the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor”
Democracy Now!, June 18, 2015
“why blockchain technology might not be trash”
Disorderly Conduct, June 8, 2015
“tech culture’s original sin”
Bloggingheads.tv, June 6, 2015
“how to put the frustrated techie at ease”
The Takeaway May 27, 2014
“the joys of ‘slow computing.’”
Marketplace Tech May 26, 2015
“the terrific term ‘Slow Computing’”
Fast Company, May 21, 2015
“The Top 5 Longreads of the Week”
Longreads, May 1, 2015
“the Catholic cooperative tradition and why it remains relevant today”
America This Week, April 29, 2015
“worker movements in places least covered by the corporate media”
GRITtv with Laura Flanders, April 28, 2015
“how cooperative ownership and technology can reinvent the economy”
Majority Report with Sam Seder, March 30, 2015
“Pope Francis Revives Concept of ‘The Commons’”
Democracy Now!, January 16, 2015
“the system that runs on money is not running in a humane way”
American Stories Continuum, January 5, 2015
“a gifted writer, chronicling the world he and his compatriots are helping to make”
On Being with Krista Tippett, October 9, 2014
“God that last part is so real. SO, SO REAL.”
The Billfold, August 6, 2014
“At the Heart of the Occupy Wall Street Movement”
Unity Online Radio, July 28, 2014
“what does Star Trek have to do with all of this?”
New Books in Religion, April 7, 2014
“Stories We’re Reading This Week”
BuzzFeed, March 7, 2014
“Fascinating article about a Catholic sister”
Fr. James Martin, March 7, 2014
“Meet the Controversial Spiritual Adviser to Trans People”
The Advocate, March 7, 2014
“the best read” on Elaine Scarry
Paris Review, February 21, 2014
More or less quoted by Noam Chomsky
Truthout, January 7, 2014
“the real reason for faith among male philosophers”
The Daily Dish, December 22, 2013
“a brilliant young thinker in the heart of … the revitalization of the religious left”
Religious Left Law, December 4, 2013
“American anarchist”
The American Conservative, November 22, 2013
“a longtime chronicler of the Occupy movement”
Democracy Now!, September 19, 2013
“Skeptical of Bill de Blasio”
New York, September 17, 2013
“Occupy Wall Street: 2 Years On”
HuffPost Live, September 17, 2013
“Studies of the movement”
Al Jazeera America, September 17, 2013
“Schneider attempts to capture the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement”
Uprising Radio, September 16, 2013
“What happened, what didn’t happen, and what might still”
The New Inquiry, September 13, 2013
“New texts out now”
Jadaliyya, September 11, 2013
“Does God exist?”
Greed For Ilm, July 28, 2013
“The unexamined God is not worth believing in”
RadioWest, July 23, 2013
“A Conundrum for the Ages”
Interfaith Voices, July 12, 2013
“Nathan Schneider explores humanity’s quest to explain the unexplainable”
HuffPost Live, July 12, 2013
“A writer is always selling somebody out”
You Make Art Dumb, June 20, 2013
“Author reads with medieval backup music”
Shelf Awareness, June 14, 2013
“Schneider defines the next generation of public intellectuals”
Religion Dispatches, June 3, 2013
“Faith ought not be confused with proof”
America, May 30, 2013
“Proofs about God can be a very preachy genre”
The Washington Post, May 14, 2013
“You came to this movement as an interested and engaged party”
OWS Radio, April 16, 2013
An interview by a boy genius
OuiShare, January 7, 2013
“You really can’t be sure these days” about UFOs in Brooklyn
Fox News, December 13, 2012
“The vital role religion can and must play in transformation in this society”
America, December 10, 2012
From Stratfor’s “Global Intelligence Files”
WikiLeaks, October 16, 2012
Talking head in American Autumn: An Occudoc
Variety, September 27, 2012
“After this year I know the people I’ll be organizing with my whole life”
Salon, September 16, 2012
“High-rolling philosophers”
The Boston Globe, September 15, 2012
“Occupy Catholics seeks to make tradition relevant to a new movement”
National Catholic Reporter, July 9, 2012
“Is the Occupy movement being hijacked?”
Al Jazeera, April 18, 2012
Featured in Vanity Fair oral history of Occupy Wall Street
Vanity Fair, February 2012
Theologian Gary Dorrien quotes “an insider to General Assembly discussions”
Christian Century, November 3, 2011
“What we know about Occupy Wall Street”
The Brian Lehrer Show, October 3, 2011
Ezra Klein: Nation FAQ “the single best place to start” on OWS
The Washington Post, October 3, 2011
“Objective journalism, this is not”
The New York Observer, September 30, 2011
One of the “key players” at OWS
The New York Observer, September 30, 2011
“The role that a personal library plays as a ‘memory theater’”
Tim O’Reilly, January 3, 2011
George Dawes Green: “the kind of people you can drink Scotch with all night”
Time Out New York, December 9, 2009