Other Networks: Beyond the Internet Imaginary
September 9, 2025
5:00-6:30 p.m. Mountain Time
Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library
Join us to celebrate the publication of our colleague Lori Emerson's extraordinary new book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) with a 30 minute lecture performance involving handheld FM radios, semaphore flags, spoken morse code, and more. The lecture-performance will be followed by a 30 minute discussion on networks beyond the internet with MEDLab director Nathan Schneider. Twenty copies of Other Networks will be available for purchase.
Seminar: Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives
September 10, 2025
10:00-11:00 a.m. Mountain Time
Metagov Seminar (Zoom)
This seminar will explore the extraordinary new book "Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives - A Global Perspective." The book is full of chapters arguing for a view of historical politics beyond the dominant paradigm that sees the state as the ultimate destination of social development. It draws examples from around the world, including indigenous and diasporic societies outside the Global North. These stories can help us reconsider our assumptions about the design of online governance.
The seminar will be a conversation among attendees, starting with provocations from three of the book's contributors:
- Justin Jennings (University of Toronto)
- Barbara Mills (University of Arizona)
- Gary Feinman (Field Museum)
The seminar will be hosted by Nathan Schneider and Federica Carugati, two Metagov research directors working on the Governance Ecologies project. It will be co-sponsored by Nathan's Media Economies Design Lab at CU Boulder.
RSVP on the event page.
Project updates
There are a lot of new updates on our work at the MEDLab website—don't miss them:
Radio: Who gets to belong in the digital future?
MEDLab's radio show, Looks Like New, comes out the fourth Thursday of every month on KGNU, 88.5 FM, or online as a podcast. Last month's episode is now available:
Who gets to participate in society—and how do we build systems that serve everyone, not just the privileged few?
In this episode of Looks Like New, MEDLab’s Júlia Martins Rodrigues speaks with Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, a leading expert at the intersection of technology and social justice, about what happens when entire communities are left behind in our rapidly digitizing world. As Director of the Center for Technology Innovation and founder of the AI Equity Lab, Turner Lee has dedicated her work to making AI and internet access more inclusive, ethical, and equitable—from the U.S. to the Global South. We explore insights from her groundbreaking book Digitally Invisible and discuss how we can rethink AI governance to create a more just digital future.
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