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     rouge (3.3.0)
+    ruby-enum (0.7.2)
+      i18n
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     safe_yaml (1.0.4)
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+twitter_username: MEDLabBoulder
     
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+deploy:
+#  - cd .. && jekyll build
+#  - cd .. && read -p 'Commit message: ' message && git commit -a -m $message
+  - rsync -crPze ssh --delete ~/Current/CU/medlab-web/_site/* nasc0399@cmci.colorado.edu:/data/web/htdocs/cmci/medlab
+        
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_posts/2018-12-06-notes-on-collective-governance.md

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 *by Katy Fetters*
 
-<img src="{{ site.url }}/assets/fetters-wave.jpg" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: *What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?*
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/fetters-wave.jpg %}" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: *What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?*
 
 We spoke with several cooperative-minded experts who offered their insight into these questions, as part of a collaboration with the Action Network, a nonprofit online mobilization platform whose team is seeking to further democratize its operations. Here are a few takeaways from our discussion:
 

_projects/governance.md

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-layout: page
-title: Platform Cooperativism
-summary: Supporting an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy
----
-
-Since co-organizing the first "platform cooperativism" conference at the New School in 2015, MEDLab director Nathan Schneider has been active in organizing and documenting this growing movement aiming to build an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy.
-
-## Collaborators
-
-* [Platform Cooperativism Consortium](https://platform.coop/about/consortium) at The New School
-
-## Publications
-
-* Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (eds.), _Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet_ (OR Books, 2016)
-* Nathan Schneider, "An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy," _The Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
-* Nathan Schneider, _Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy_ (Nation Books, 2018)
-
-## Related
-
-* [The Internet of Ownership](https://ioo.coop/) directory of the platform co-op ecosystem
-* [Platform.coop](https://platform.coop/), a portal for platform cooperativism

_projects/social-fiction.md

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-layout: page
+layout: project
 title: Social Fiction for Social Enterprise
 summary: Research and workshops on the uses of speculative fiction
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_projects/stakeholder-news.md

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-layout: page
+layout: project
 title: Stakeholder Ownership for Sustainable News
 summary: Can democratic ownership design foster newfound trust and revenue for journalism?
 ---

_projects/user-trusts.md

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 ---
-layout: page
+layout: project
 title: User Trusts
+slug: user-trusts
 summary: Strategies for restructuring online platforms based on the ideas of Louis O. Kelso
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-<p><img src="https://cmci.colorado.edu/assets/fetters-wave.jpg" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: <em>What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?</em></p>
+<p><img src="/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: <em>What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?</em></p>
 
 <p>We spoke with several cooperative-minded experts who offered their insight into these questions, as part of a collaboration with the Action Network, a nonprofit online mobilization platform whose team is seeking to further democratize its operations. Here are a few takeaways from our discussion:</p>
 
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-<p><img src="/medlab/assets/nathan_schneider.png" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" /> <strong><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider">Nathan Schneider</a> (assistant professor, Media Studies)</strong> is a reporter who writes about religion, technology and resistance. He co-organized the New School in 2015, Platform Cooperativism, and has been a leader in efforts to develop more democratic business models for the online economy. He is the author of three books, most recently <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy</a></em>, and co-edited <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/books/books/ours-to-hack/">Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet</a></em> with Trebor Scholz. His articles have appeared in publications such as <em>Harper’s</em>, <em>The Nation</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>Vice</em> and <em>The Catholic Worker</em>. Find more information at <a href="https://nathanschneider.info/">nathanschneider.info</a>.</p>
+<p><img src="/medlab/assets/nathan_schneider.png" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" /> <strong><a href="https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider">Nathan Schneider</a> (assistant professor, Media Studies)</strong> is a journalist who works at the intersections of technology and social change. He co-organized the New School in 2015, Platform Cooperativism, and has been a leader in efforts to develop more democratic business models for the online economy. He is the author of three books, most recently <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy</a></em>, and he co-edited <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/books/books/ours-to-hack/">Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet</a></em> with Trebor Scholz. His articles have appeared in publications such as <em>Harper’s</em>, <em>The Nation</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>Vice</em> and <em>The Catholic Worker</em>. Find more information at <a href="https://nathanschneider.info/">nathanschneider.info</a>.</p>
 
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.8.5">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2019-01-07T15:50:29-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder</title><subtitle>The Media Enterprise Design Lab is a think tank for community-oriented media organizations, based at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy" /><published>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Nathan Schneider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://cmci.colorado.edu/assets/fetters-wave.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;&quot; /&gt;Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: &lt;em&gt;What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I work in a startup town, the rare kind of place where you can trip over veteran founders, with multiple exits behind then, on the sidewalk. By “exits,” I mean the end-goal of most tech-oriented startups—the moment when the startup is sold, either to a bigger company or, more rarely, to the investing public on the stock market. The whole culture of startup communities like Boulder is aimed toward this; it’s when founders and investors get their big payday. And yet this is the logic that turns our online infrastrutures into commodities. In the exit, it is often the data and loyalty of us the users that is being sold to the highest bidder.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What if another kind of exit were possible? What if founders and investors could aim for an exit that sold to the users with a real stake in the future behavior of the firm, as well as in its sustainability? These are questions I’ve been puzzling on for some time now, and I think I’m starting to see a viable path forward.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The ESOP, or employee stock ownership plan, is the most successful strategy for enabling employee ownership in the US economy. In companies from New Belgium Brewing to Southwest Airlines, it makes worker-owners of 14 million Americans. In contrast, there are just several hundred worker co-ops with just several thousand workers among them. Two things make the ESOP model work as well as it has:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;it consolidates the ownership shares in a trust, making it far easier to finance than a bunch of individual workers with individual credit histories&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;since the 1970s and 1980s, there has been appropriate tax treatment in US law&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For a particular profile of firms (generally closely held and medium-sized) the ESOP has been an attractive exit strategy for many founders.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The inventor of the ESOP model, Louis Kelso—a Coloradan and graduate of CU Boulder’s business and law schools—didn’t want to stop at that. He envisioned the ESOP as just one kind of “SOP” enabling more broad-based capital ownership. I suspect the challenges of the online economy present an opportunity to consider other such models he proposed, particularly the CSOP, or consumer stock ownership plan. Analagous to the ESOP, this would enable long-term users of a business (Kelso envisioned examples like neighborhood grocery stores or monopoly utilities) to become owners of it—by borrowing outside capital on the promise of future growth. Such financing means the CSOP could provide an exit payout far greater than what cash individual users could muster.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What if, for instance, Uber drivers could become dividend-earning owners in this way, or if Facebook users could use such a trust to elect their own trustees to the company’s board? This could be a strategy for remedying some of the critical accountability crises of the online economy.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am currently engaged in research on the feasibility of such models, with the support of a fellowship from Rutgers University’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing&quot;&gt;Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit-Sharing&lt;/a&gt;. The first step is a paper with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/1/morshed-mannan&quot;&gt;Morshed Mannan&lt;/a&gt;, a brilliant thinker on legal strategies for a more democratic online economy. We’re exploring what conditions would work best for this kind if exit, as well as the policies needed to make it more feasible.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;More to come. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.zotero.org/ntnsndr/items/collectionKey/U298EBUI&quot;&gt;Here’s a small bibliography-in-progress&lt;/a&gt;. In the meantime, if this topic is related to your interests, I would love to hear from you.&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="user-trusts" /><category term="internet-of-ownership" /><summary type="html">by Nathan Schneider</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Notes on Collective Governance</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Notes on Collective Governance" /><published>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Katy Fetters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;&quot; /&gt;Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: &lt;em&gt;What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;We spoke with several cooperative-minded experts who offered their insight into these questions, as part of a collaboration with the Action Network, a nonprofit online mobilization platform whose team is seeking to further democratize its operations. Here are a few takeaways from our discussion:&lt;/p&gt;
 

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+            Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy
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+          <p>Introducing a research project on user-owned trusts</p>
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 <p style="padding-bottom:1.5em;">Can democratic ownership design foster newfound trust and revenue for journalism?</p>
 
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 ### Director
 
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+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/nathan_schneider.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" /> **[Nathan Schneider](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider) (assistant professor, Media Studies)** is a journalist who works at the intersections of technology and social change. He co-organized the New School in 2015, Platform Cooperativism, and has been a leader in efforts to develop more democratic business models for the online economy. He is the author of three books, most recently _[Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy](https://nathanschneider.info/e4e)_, and he co-edited _[Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet](https://nathanschneider.info/books/books/ours-to-hack/)_ with Trebor Scholz. His articles have appeared in publications such as _Harper's_, _The Nation_, _The Guardian_, _Vice_ and _The Catholic Worker_. Find more information at [nathanschneider.info](https://nathanschneider.info/).
 
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-<img src="{{ "/assets/katy_fetters.png" | relative_url }}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Katy Fetters](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/katy-fetters) (MA student, Media and Public Engagement)** is from Southern California and sometimes wishes she still lived near the beach no matter how charming Boulder is. She once lived out of a car and traveled down south for a good while to experience the allure of Patagonia with her boyfriend. To lend her voice and experience to issues around disability and identity, she started Cerebral Palsy Strong, #cpstrong in 2017. She came to CU to expand her understanding of media and culture to help build upon this work and hopes that it will start to change the way we think about what disability looks like. Katy holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America.
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/katy_fetters.png %}" style="float:left; width: 200px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0px;" />**[Katy Fetters](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/katy-fetters) (MA student, Media and Public Engagement)** is from Southern California and sometimes wishes she still lived near the beach no matter how charming Boulder is. She once lived out of a car and traveled down south for a good while to experience the allure of Patagonia with her boyfriend. To lend her voice and experience to issues around disability and identity, she started Cerebral Palsy Strong, #cpstrong in 2017. She came to CU to expand her understanding of media and culture to help build upon this work and hopes that it will start to change the way we think about what disability looks like. Katy holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America.

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-<small style="text-align:center;">*Artwork by James Seibold, commissioned for the [2017 platform cooperativism conference](https://platform.coop/2017) at the New School.*</small>

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