Hi there! We’re just a few weeks away from the third #platformcoop conference at The New School in New York—a celebration and strategy session for a truly democratic internet. It’s called The People’s Disruption, and it runs all day November 10 and 11.
If you can come to just one part of it, come to our free, open-to-the-public Friday night event, “What Happened to the Future,” at 7 p.m. on November 10. It will include:
- Alicia Garza, founder of #BlackLivesMatter
- Yochai Benkler, Harvard University
- Alicia Wong, Roosevelt Institute
- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Learn about the Friday event here, and register for the full conference here. A million thanks to my co-organizers, Camille Kerr, Trebor Scholz, and Palak Shah.
Study and hone
I’m now in my third year of helping to create CU Boulder’s MA in Media and Public Engagement. I haven’t talked about it much, mostly because of the busyness of doing it, but now I feel like I should. My colleagues and I have worked hard to create a space where creators of diverse backgrounds can come and study together the crafts of media and social change—activists, social entrepreneurs, narrative hackers, solutions journalists, future academics who want to get their hands dirty, and more.
Maybe this is something you need. Maybe it’s something your community needs. We need you.
Please consider sharing this program with anyone you think might be interested. Let me know if you have questions. The application deadline for this year is January 10. It’s a lot of time and it isn’t.
Bibliography
This fantastic story of a weekend inside a black women’s secret society is just scratching the surface of the much, much bigger story Jessica Gordon Nembhard tells (h/t Phil Klay).
My Study Circle teammate Caroline Savery just published an epic on the Trumpocalypse via the young platform co-op Cosmos.
Bourdieu is useful for analyzing online reputation systems.
This is one of the better Zuckerberg think-pieces lately, but this one takes us to some solutions.
Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is helping me sleep.
Travels
- 2017.11.07: New York, NY – Lecture on Catholic cooperative economics at St. John’s University
- 2017.11.07: New York, NY – Lecture on Catholic cooperative economics at St. Joseph’s College
- 2017.11.10-11: New York, NY – The People’s Disruption #platformcoop conference at The New School
- 2018.03.07: Cambridge, MA – Platform cooperativism discussion at Harvard Law School
- 2018.03.08: South Hadley, MA – Mount Holyoke College
- 2018.03.10: East Lansing, MI – MSU Student Housing Cooperative