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Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life by Nathan Schneider, is being released tomorrow, February 27, 2024. I created the Broadband Institute Foundation as a Platform Cooperative, a concept I learned about in 2017 from him and Trebor Sholz at The New School, NYC conference.
Nathan encourages online communities to be more intentional about choosing technologies … and advocates for blockchain. While this technology has so far been associated mostly with scams, “it is a reminder that we could design our networks differently—for more collective ownership, rather than the assumption that every service is somebody else’s …”
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or … Continue reading
