What forms of networked solidarity are emerging in an era of online platforms, and how might we organize labor in platform economies? I’m here at the two-day Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School in New York city. I’ll be facilitating a workshop on data science in cooperative economies with […]
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Today, I’m here at the New School in New York City with Nathan Matias for the Platform Cooperativism conference, which is bringing together a remarkable range of speakers on the theme of creating online platforms that are owned and operated by their users and workers. These two days feature speakers […]
What challenges must be overcome to move towards cooperative economies? This weekend, I’m here at the Platform cooperativism conference, where I’ll be talking on Saturday at 4pm. This session on “making it work” featured a series of sociologists, legal scholars, and business scholars to discuss this question. Juliet Schor (@JulietSchor): […]
(this blog post was written with Katie Arthur) What is platform cooperativism and why is it needed? Today, we’re here at the New School in New York City for the Platform Cooperativism conference, which is bringing together a remarkable range of speakers on the theme of creating online platforms that […]
Miri Eisin is a former Colonel of the Israeli Defence Force. Her talk at MIT on the 2nd November 2015 prompted the question of how to fight the reification of victimhood narratives within the dialogues of protracted conflict situations and how to make room for emotion within our understandings […]