diff --git a/_site/about/index.html b/_site/about/index.html index 57addf4..1e0f3fb 100644 --- a/_site/about/index.html +++ b/_site/about/index.html @@ -67,23 +67,33 @@

Director

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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, 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 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.

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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, 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 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.

Research fellow

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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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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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Faculty fellows @ CU Boulder

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Faculty fellows

- + diff --git a/_site/feed.xml b/_site/feed.xml index dcb98a7..a88bc2d 100644 --- a/_site/feed.xml +++ b/_site/feed.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Jekyll2019-01-09T16:54:00-07:00https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xmlMedia Enterprise Design Lab @ CU BoulderThe Media Enterprise Design Lab is a think tank for community ownership and governance in media organizations, based at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law2018-12-09T00:00:00-07:002018-12-09T00:00:00-07:00https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/09/organizations-as-abstractions<p>The law, perhaps by definition, lags behind people working for social change. I certainly found this over and over in the next-generation cooperative projects I profiled in <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone</a></em>. One co-op in Catalonia was, legally, a mishmash of entities that presented themselves as if they were a coherent whole; another, in New Zealand, was an LLC that called itself a foundation but operated like a co-op. MEDLab has been working with Action Network, whose founder <a href="https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/">describes</a> its innovative governance model as “cooperative,” even though the organization is mainly a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Some of these co-ops are more cooperative in practice than many “actual” co-ops; it’s just that the older co-op law was inadequate to meet their needs. They had to hack.</p> +Jekyll2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xmlMedia Enterprise Design Lab @ CU BoulderThe Media Enterprise Design Lab is a think tank for community ownership and governance in media organizations, based at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law2018-12-09T00:00:00-07:002018-12-09T00:00:00-07:00https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/09/organizations-as-abstractions<p>The law, perhaps by definition, lags behind people working for social change. I certainly found this over and over in the next-generation cooperative projects I profiled in <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone</a></em>. One co-op in Catalonia was, legally, a mishmash of entities that presented themselves as if they were a coherent whole; another, in New Zealand, was an LLC that called itself a foundation but operated like a co-op. MEDLab has been working with Action Network, whose founder <a href="https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/">describes</a> its innovative governance model as “cooperative,” even though the organization is mainly a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Some of these co-ops are more cooperative in practice than many “actual” co-ops; it’s just that the older co-op law was inadequate to meet their needs. They had to hack.</p> <p>Really, no organization is what the incorporation statutes and bylaws say it is. Organizations are made of people, culture, relationships, and other things that don’t fit into the letter of our laws, and which shouldn’t. This is especially the case for democratic enterprises trying to operate in a legal regime designed primarily for control by large investors and wealthy donors. Those seeking to develop new strategies for more accountable organizations have to be clever. They have to build the organizational structure as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer">layer of abstraction</a> quite distinct from the legal layer.</p> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ <ul> <li>The Sustainable Economies Law Center supports and trains <strong><a href="https://www.theselc.org/worker_selfdirected_nonprofits">worker self-directed nonprofits</a></strong> (and is one itself), which operate as worker co-ops within the context of a 501(c)(3) organization</li> <li>Some cooperatives <strong><a href="https://www.shareable.net/blog/forming-a-worker-coop-llc-or-cooperative-corporation">form as LLCs or other business entities</a></strong> and encode their cooperative practices in bylaws and contracts, rather than at the level of incorporation</li> - <li>A new startup, <a href="https://staffing.coop/">Staffing Cooperative</a>, is developing a new model in which <strong>the co-op serves as a holding company</strong> for non-cooperative subsidiaries, whose workers, in turn, become members of the co-op</li> + <li>A startup, <a href="https://staffing.coop/">Staffing Cooperative</a>, is developing a new model in which <strong>the co-op serves as a holding company</strong> for non-cooperative subsidiaries, whose workers, in turn, become members of the co-op</li> <li><a href="/medlab/assets/VirtualCoop.pdf">I have proposed a strategy</a> based on nonprofit fiscal sponsorship, through which <strong>early-stage co-ops can form without incorporation</strong> by operating within an umbrella entity, which may or may not be itself a co-op</li> </ul> diff --git a/_site/projects/governance.html b/_site/projects/governance.html index 086214d..74971dc 100644 --- a/_site/projects/governance.html +++ b/_site/projects/governance.html @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ - + +{"datePublished":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/governance.html"},"url":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/governance.html","headline":"Collaborative Governance and Accountable Leadership","description":"Through 2019, we are conducting consulting, convening and research on leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools.","dateModified":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@context":"http://schema.org"} diff --git a/_site/projects/social-fiction.html b/_site/projects/social-fiction.html index fadd9f7..3bb6ecb 100644 --- a/_site/projects/social-fiction.html +++ b/_site/projects/social-fiction.html @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ - + +{"datePublished":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/social-fiction.html"},"url":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/social-fiction.html","headline":"Social Fiction for Social Enterprise","description":"MEDLab offers workshops for community-oriented enterprises of all stages using methods of speculative fiction. We are developing a methodology for applying narrative practices to the imaginative process of enterprise building—addressing challenges of internal governance, stakeholder acquisition, and social impact. In addition to helping entrepreneurs and their communities develop their own narratives, we commission original works from leading authors.","dateModified":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@context":"http://schema.org"} diff --git a/_site/projects/stakeholder-news.html b/_site/projects/stakeholder-news.html index 0b4398e..f102db1 100644 --- a/_site/projects/stakeholder-news.html +++ b/_site/projects/stakeholder-news.html @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ - + +{"datePublished":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/stakeholder-news.html"},"url":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/stakeholder-news.html","headline":"Stakeholder Ownership for Sustainable News","description":"In collaboration with pioneering publications, we are exploring how democratic strategies for ownership, financing, and governance can support a new generation of accountable, sustainable news organizations.","dateModified":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@context":"http://schema.org"} diff --git a/_site/projects/user-trusts.html b/_site/projects/user-trusts.html index 69c574e..496b1f1 100644 --- a/_site/projects/user-trusts.html +++ b/_site/projects/user-trusts.html @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ - + +{"datePublished":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@type":"BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/user-trusts.html"},"url":"https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/projects/user-trusts.html","headline":"User Trusts","description":"Through employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs), millions of Americans experience the benefits of being co-owners of their workplaces. But employment is only one kind of economic relationship that can be strengthened with co-ownership trusts. Louis Kelso, the inventor of the ESOP, also imagined other SOPs, including a consumer stock-ownership plan (CSOP). In an era when fixed employment may be in decline, perhaps the time is right to revisit the CSOP proposal.","dateModified":"2019-01-09T21:22:22-07:00","@context":"http://schema.org"} diff --git a/about.md b/about.md index 618708e..376b24d 100644 --- a/about.md +++ b/about.md @@ -20,18 +20,17 @@ MEDLab offers consultation services and produces public events. For more informa ### Director - **[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/). + **[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/). ### Research fellow -**[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. +**[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. -### Faculty fellows @ CU Boulder +### Faculty fellows * **[Lori Emerson](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/iawp/lori-emerson)** - Associate professor of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance, founding director of the [Media Archaeology Lab](https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/) * **[Mark Meaney](https://www.colorado.edu/business/mark-meaney)** - Executive director of the [Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility](https://www.colorado.edu/business/CESR/) - +* **[Jason Wiener](http://jrwiener.com/team/jason/)** - President, Jason Wiener|p.c.