In fall 2013, I played the occassional columnist on Shareable, a group that tracks the roots and development of cooperative, economic movements. This is my first post published on 17 Sept. 2013, crossposted from Shareable. I hear it a lot: “Sharing isn’t new.” It’s tempting to look for glimmers of […]
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Comparative Media Studies @ MIT kicked off the 2013 academic year yesterday with orientation presentations. The second-year CMS grad students pulled together a 10-minute presentation about their thesis topic and summer research and then presented to faculty, staff and incoming graduate students. I thought you’d be interested! RE: points in […]
No pun intended: I want to share something with you! I’ve been collecting terms around the peer economy. Stripped down to its core, this work paradigm is essentially about freelancing. It’s 1099s, independent contractors and sole proprietors. Collaborative, sharing, peer, consumption, economy… Those are enough terms to make heads spin. […]
Atray is a medical researcher. I’m a journalist by training with a bent for community. We each have roots in different strands of critical analysis. As roommates, we spent hours discussing science, cultural context and how to measure impact. One topic we often returned to is whether science can fit […]
During an entrepreneurial journalism fellowship at CUNY J-School, I met Contently co-founder Shane Snow, who helped to craft the startup’s original manifesto: “The delineation between ‘media company’ and any other enterprise is no longer relevant; we embrace the notion that any entity – brand, nonprofit, news organization, or individual – can be […]