Friends, I hope you don’t mind me sharing news of events for my forthcoming book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life, which I think will be relevant to many of your communities. It comes out free on the Internet on February 27 from University of California Press. And it features May First as a case study in “governable stacks.” Here’s what one of my favorite media scholars has to say:
“This visionary book points a way to scrapping capitalist realism for community control over our digital spaces. Nathan Schneider generously brings together disparate wisdom from abolitionists, Black feminists, and cooperative software engineers to spark our own imaginations and experiments.”—Lilly Irani, author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
To help usher the book into the world, I’ve got some upcoming events that I hope y’all will consider sharing with your communities, as far as they’re relevant:
- “Governable Spaces: Book Launch Seminar,” Metagovernance Seminar (virtual: February 28, 2024)
- “Is Social Media Finally Decentralizing?” Web3 Social Mini Summit, ETHDenver (Denver, CO: February 28, 2024)
- “Governable Spaces: Tech for Democratic Communities,” Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY: March 2, 2024)
- “Book Brunch with Nathan Schneider,” Prime Produce (New York: NY: March 3, 2023)
- “Toward Governable Spaces” (keynote), Decentralized Social Media Workshop, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ: March 4, 2024)
Thanks for considering!
