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Open Social Media: Origin Stories

June 13, 2023 3-4:30 p.m. Mountain Time Free webinar Register In the aftermath of a chaotic Twitter takeover, many people have moved away from centralized social media platforms to a new set of social platforms that are open-source, decentralized, and user-centered—like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Nostr. This shift highlights a pressing...

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Meme Wars: Disinformation, Media Manipulation, and Political Futures

April 12, 2023 5:00 p.m. Hale Science 270 at CU Boulder Featuring Joan Donovan & Brandi Collins-Dexter This event features two Harvard-based scholar-activsts who take seriously media that others would prefer to ignore, from the utterances of Kanye West to online havens of White nationalism. Together, they will guide an...

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MEDLab Co-Hosts "A People's History of Twitter"

March 7, 2023

From the event page : ​Thursday, March 16, 9–10:30 AM Pacific, via Zoom ​While Twitter is in crisis, another generation of social media is emerging. But before we decide to stay or go or divide our attention across more platforms, we first need to figure out what we expect –...

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Introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act

September 20, 2021 10-11 am Mountain Time Free webinar Watch here In May, Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper introduced the Capital for Cooperatives Act , an historic proposal for opening the doors of the Small Business Administration to cooperatives of all kinds. If made law, this bill would enable member-owned businesses...

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How 24 Colorado Newspapers Are Staying Locally Owned

June 3, 2021 12-1 pm Mountain Time Free webinar Watch After years of shedding reporters and newsrooms, Colorado is home to a new experiment in sustainable journalism. In early May, the National Trust for Local News announced it was acquiring Colorado Community Media, a network of 24 newspapers in the...

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Mutualist Infrastructure: A Conversation with Sara Horowitz

Thursday, May 20, 2021 1-2 p.m. Mountain Time Free webinar Watch As the US federal government considers once-in-a-generation investments in infrastructure, is it possible to also enable a new commitment to a democratic economy? In this conversation, celebrating the publication of Sara Horowitz's new book Mutualism , we will explore...

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Exit to Community: Two Startup Journeys to User-Ownership

May 12, 2021 9 a.m. Mountain Time Boulder Startup Week webinar Watch Collaborative notes How can startups transition from community engagement to community ownership? This session features two startups that are figuring it out. Hacker Noon, a tech publishing platform based in rural Colorado, moved from Medium to its own...

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Exit to Community: Designing Crypto for Social Good

Thursday, April 29, 2021 10-11 a.m. Mountain Time Free webinar Watch Notes As blockchain and cryptocurrency takes another step toward mainstream adoption—think Bitcoin, NFTs, and Coinbase—communities are questioning conventional economic models, and exploring how this technology can enable new alternatives. This webinar will feature blockchain platforms designing solutions that empower...

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Exit to Community: Emerging Crypto

Friday, February 26, 2021 2-3:30 p.m. Mountain Time Free webinar Watch Collaborative Notes New blockchain-based tokens offer tantalizing possibilities for community ownership. Can these innovations make it easier for startups to become owned by their core stakeholders, in an "ownership economy"? In this webinar, we'll hear from projects that are...

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Exit to Community: Meet the Zine

Monday, August 31, 2020 11 a.m.-noon Mountain Time Webinar To join, register at Crowdcast Starting with a call for "Exit to Community ” in September 2019, we have been exploring what this new option for startups might look like and how to get started. Looking back, what have we learned?...

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