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Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
50 minutes 18 seconds
1 year ago
Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
To counter the "implicit feudalism" that is the norm on the Internet, activist-scholar Nathan Schneider explains the potential of democratic governance in online life and its importance to "real world" democracy. A professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Schneider argues that "online spaces could be sites of creative, radical and democratic renaissance." But this will require progressive activists to heed the lessons of various social and decolonial movements throughout history, and to find the resolve to use the technologies in creative ways.
Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier
A monthly conversation with creative activists pioneering new forms of commoning.