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Free lunch: Designing against digital colonialism
The third installment of CU Boulder's Rehearsals in Conversation Series is on Monday April 15 (11:30-1 pm) in CASE E390 (CTL). The event will feature Information Science Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Race, Media and Technology Bryan Semaan in conversation with Media Studies Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Media Economies Design Lab Nathan Schneider. The title of their exchange is "Designing Against Digital Colonialism." Lunch will be served.
More details here.
If you can't make it in person, you can still join Nathan online for a conversation next week with the All Tech Is Human community:)
Governable Spaces is getting around
Nathan's new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life, is starting to get around. Check out some of the places where the book is being discussed:
- Joe Arney, “Virtual Homesteaders Built an Internet of ‘Little Autocracies.’ Is Digital Democracy Doomed?” University of Colorado Boulder (February 20, 2024)
- Miles Hadfield, “Book review: Nathan Schneider looks for ways to democratise online spaces,” Co-operative News (February 26, 2024)
- Douglas Rushkoff, “Nathan Schneider,” Team Human (February 28, 2024)
- Richard Littauer and Leslie Hawthorne, “Nathan Schneider on his new book,” Sustain (March 1, 2024)
- Kevin Simpson, “Author Nathan Schneider talks about his book examining online networks and democracy,” The Colorado Sun (March 1, 2024)
- “How to revive democracy in digital spaces,” Project Liberty (March 5, 2024)
- Fiona Foster, Connections, KGNU radio (March 8, 2024)
- Daniel Kuhn, “‘We’ve Seen Breakdowns of Trust’: Nathan Schneider on How to Democratize the Web,” CoinDesk (March 26, 2024)
- Forest Gregg, “Democracy and Fun,” Slow News (March 30, 2024)
- Josh Kramer, “The internet was supposed to be democratic. Why isn’t it?” New_Public newsletter (March 31, 2024)
- David Bollier, “Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet,” Frontiers of Commoning (April 1, 2024)
- Elias Crim, "A Chat with Nathan Schneider about how saving democracy must include creating self-governing spaces," Solidarity Hall (April 3, 2024)
In addition to being available wherever books are sold, it is free and open-access in multiple formats from University of California Press.
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