Ubiquity Presstech@ubiquitypress.com20260404T040206Generated by RUA metadata exporterucp-196-m-15-978-0-520-39394-3030115978-0-520-39394-301internal-reference1960610.1525/luminos.18100BCB2021002152mm0312mm01229mmCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/0101Governable SpacesDemocratic Design for Online Life1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng0020803010110300<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>20200<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>30400Introduction: Democracy in the Wild
Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design
Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival
Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination
Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism
Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy
Epilogue: Metagovernance43000<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/d6ad7166-a2d9-4add-bf0a-9c13d86efc30.png1030610.1525/luminos.181.aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Introduction: Democracy in the Wild1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1525/luminos.181.bCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access3030610.1525/luminos.181.cCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access4030610.1525/luminos.181.dCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access5030610.1525/luminos.181.eCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access6030610.1525/luminos.181.fCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access7030610.1525/luminos.181.gCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Epilogue: Metagovernance1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access01URLhttps://www.luminosoa.orgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181California040120240227The Author(s)02WORLD0615978-0-520-39395-00615978-0-520-39395-00615978-0-520-39395-0WORLD11Unknown20082024022708ucp-196-m-15-978-0-520-39395-0030115978-0-520-39395-001internal-reference1960610.1525/luminos.18100EBE10710Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/0101Governable SpacesDemocratic Design for Online Life1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng0020803010110300<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>20200<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>30400Introduction: Democracy in the Wild
Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design
Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival
Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination
Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism
Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy
Epilogue: Metagovernance43000<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/d6ad7166-a2d9-4add-bf0a-9c13d86efc30.png1030610.1525/luminos.181.aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Introduction: Democracy in the Wild1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1525/luminos.181.bCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access3030610.1525/luminos.181.cCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access4030610.1525/luminos.181.dCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access5030610.1525/luminos.181.eCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access6030610.1525/luminos.181.fCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access7030610.1525/luminos.181.gCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Epilogue: Metagovernance1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access01URLhttps://www.luminosoa.orgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181California040120240227The Author(s)02WORLD0615978-0-520-39394-3WORLD11Unknown36Supplier’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org29Supplier’s website: download the titlehttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/196/files/783d19bd-ee5a-4fd0-963b-6ce384177bc7.pdf20082024022701ucp-196-m-15-978-0-520-39395-0030115978-0-520-39395-001internal-reference1960610.1525/luminos.18100EBE10110Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/0101Governable SpacesDemocratic Design for Online Life1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng0020803010110300<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>20200<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>30400Introduction: Democracy in the Wild
Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design
Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival
Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination
Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism
Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy
Epilogue: Metagovernance43000<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/d6ad7166-a2d9-4add-bf0a-9c13d86efc30.png1030610.1525/luminos.181.aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Introduction: Democracy in the Wild1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1525/luminos.181.bCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access3030610.1525/luminos.181.cCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access4030610.1525/luminos.181.dCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access5030610.1525/luminos.181.eCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access6030610.1525/luminos.181.fCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access7030610.1525/luminos.181.gCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Epilogue: Metagovernance1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access01URLhttps://www.luminosoa.orgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181California040120240227The Author(s)02WORLD0615978-0-520-39394-3WORLD11Unknown36Supplier’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org29Supplier’s website: download the titlehttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/196/files/b5fe115d-7237-4628-bed8-83a1155cfc63.epub20082024022701ucp-196-m-15-978-0-520-39395-0030115978-0-520-39395-001internal-reference1960610.1525/luminos.18100EDE12110Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/0101Governable SpacesDemocratic Design for Online Life1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng0020803010110300<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>20200<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>30400Introduction: Democracy in the Wild
Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design
Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival
Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination
Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism
Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy
Epilogue: Metagovernance43000<p>When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In <i>Governable Spaces</i>, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.</p>
<p>“A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. <i>Governable Spaces</i> is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative.” — Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago</p>
<p>“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 <i>Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India</i></p>
<p>“From feminist theory to blockchain governance, this dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions.” — Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst</p>
<p>Nathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.</p>52000Open Access01000302https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-ucp/files/media/cover_images/d6ad7166-a2d9-4add-bf0a-9c13d86efc30.png1030610.1525/luminos.181.aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Introduction: Democracy in the Wild1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access2030610.1525/luminos.181.bCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access3030610.1525/luminos.181.cCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access4030610.1525/luminos.181.dCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access5030610.1525/luminos.181.eCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access6030610.1525/luminos.181.fCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access7030610.1525/luminos.181.gCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)02http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Chapter0101Epilogue: Metagovernance1A01Nathan SchneiderNathanSchneiderUniversity of Colorado BoulderNathan Schneider is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the master’s program in Media and Public Engagement.01eng12000Open Access01URLhttps://www.luminosoa.orgUniversity of California Press01University of California Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://www.luminosoa.org02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.181California040120240227The Author(s)02WORLD0615978-0-520-39394-3WORLD11Unknown36Supplier’s website for a specified workhttps://www.luminosoa.org29Supplier’s website: download the titlehttps://www.luminosoa.org/books/196/files/d1d879fd-268a-4eb1-91b0-a1e7131b66a1.mobi20082024022701