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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How do we pay attention to music? This month on Looks Like New, host Alex Lipka speaks with educator and drummer, Steve Lamos on his relationship with education, writing, music, and infrastructure of the industry. #MEDLab #Music

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Who gets to make the rules online? New this month on Looks Like New, host Júlia Martins Rodrigues talks with Princeton's Sohyeon Hwang about who governs subreddits, fandom wikis, and Mastodon servers and what it would take to share that power #MEDLab #Governance #Power #Tech

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How can VR tell the story of genocide? This month on Looks Like New, Stephanie Abdalla speaks with Dr. Naim Aburaddi, co-director of the Phoenix of Gaza XR Project documenting Gaza's resistance against destruction, culture, and history via immersive tech. #VR #Gaza #MEDLab #Resistance

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Who owns the commons? In this episode we talk with Lauren Gardner about building infrastructure for open-source projects and why lessons from DIY arts spaces like Babycastles & School for Poetic Computation might hold the key to collective digital life. #MEDLab #Community #Tech

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This month on Looks Like New, Timnit Gebru joins MEDLab fellow Stephanie Abdalla to discuss AI ethics, the history of AGI, and resistance shaping alternative AI futures. Founder of Distributed AI Research Institute and co-founder of Black in AI. #MEDLab #AI #Ethics #Future

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tomorrow, March 24, from 8:30 AM to noon, MEDLab will be hosting Protocol Ecologies! All are welcome to join us at Case E330 at CU Boulder. Scan the QR code for more information. #MEDLab #Ecologies #Boulder #Protocol #AI

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thursday March 12th from 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM MEDLab will hosting From Survivor, To Researcher, To Steward, hosted by Dr KaLyn "Kay" Coghill from Blacksky Algorithms. All are welcome to join at Case E330 on Cu Boulder's Campus! RVSP now! #MEDLab

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Monday March 9th at 4PM MEDLab will be hosting Wired and Unwell! A sunset talk facilitated by Jadyn Turbeville . All are welcome to join in CASE W250. Check out our pre-read by scanning the QR code on the flyer! See more events at www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/e... #MEDLab #Pyschology #AiEthics

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

What is the future of digital capitalism? This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Nick Srnicek about platform capitalism, automation, and the political forces shaping our digital economy asking who owns the platforms, who benefits from them, and how their future could be built differently.

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

What can ancient cosmologies teach the future? This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Ytasha Womack about Afrofuturism as active world-building, how imagination, ancient cosmologies, rhythm, and storytelling shape more humane tech and the futures we’re already living.

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

What is the future of sacred space in a digital world? This month on Looks Like New, MEDLab’s Stephanie Abdallah speaks with Nesrine Mansour about architecture in the age of AI, reimagining sacred spaces, authorship, bias, and the role of AI in design education and practice.

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

How has colonialism evolved under big tech? In this month’s episode, MEDLab interviews Dr. Nick Couldry about the relationship between media, power, and societal structures, data colonialism, solidarities within and beyond academia, and the need to analyze emerging technologies.

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What stories do our machines tell and what do they remember? This month we talk with artist & researcher Camila Galaz, founder of Structured Knowledge on how storytelling and experimental media reveal the hidden human histories behind our digital world. #MEDlab #Podcast #tech

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What if the future of ecosystem restoration isn’t driven by big institutions—but by Indigenous women collecting seeds along Brazil’s rivers? Today, CU Boulder welcomes Lia Domingues of the Xingu Seed Network, sharing how a grassroots movement is reshaping conservation

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Who will own the future of gig work? In this episode of Looks Like New, MEDlab Associate Director Júlia Martins speaks with Minsun Ji, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, about empowering workers to reclaim control over their economic futures. #MEDlab #COop #Gigwork

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Who gets to participate in a digital society? This month on Looks Like New, Julia Martins Rodrigues talks with Dr. Nicol Turner Lee about AI, equity, and what happens when whole communities are left behind. Featuring insights from her book Digitally Invisible. #MEDlab #AI #Equity

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Are you being Trained? AI is evolving faster than our systems for ownership and data rights. This month on Looks Like New, Andy DiLallo talks with artist & technologist Mat Dryhurst about how DIY music culture informed his vision for transparent, collective AI governance. #MEDlab #Art #AI

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Is anything new in influencer marketing? This month on Looks Like New, MEDlab’s Associate Director Júlia Martins Rodrigues talks with Art Bamford, Ph.D., about how celebrities have changed marketing and advertising throughout history. #MEDlab #Influencer #Marketing

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Are our health apps negatively impacting us? This month on Looks Like New, MEDlab fellow Stephanie Abdalla hosts Anna Müller, who joined us all the way from Brazil to discuss the importance of data control for individuals with uteruses. #MEDLab #Data #Privacy

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

How is open-source software like magic? This month on Looks Like New, research fellow Adina Glickstean talks to Coraline Ada Ehmke. Who is dedicated to helping technologists make sense of – and take accountability for – the ethical implications of their work. #MEDlab #OpenSource #Ethics

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 26/02/2025

It only took us 6 years, but @medlabboulder.bsky.social finally has stickers.

Colorful sticker that says Media Economies Design Lab in a circle around an old computer that says "democratic communities" on the screen

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

How has racism held back economic democracy? This month on, Looks Like New, MEDlab director Nathan Schneider hosted a group conversation of 100+ guests to understand these questions featuring authors Jason Spicer and Jessica Gordon Nembhard. #MEDlab #StructuralRacism #Economy

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 18/12/2024

I just posted a super-simple how-to guide for online community governance—basically just inviting communities to start with some important, often-neglected basics. If you know anyone who might appreciate this, please share! www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

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How to Build Governable Spaces for Online Communities

By Kike Arnaiz, via Stocksy United I’ve seen it again and again: A group gets started, gets working on something good an important, and then falls apart because

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Is online life heading into dark forests? This month on Looks Like New, we at MEDlab spoke with Yancey Stricker, best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter. About where we can let ourselves be truly creative. About where to listen below. #LLNpodcast #MEDLab #Creative #Media

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26/09/2024

please share with any prospective MA/PhD students! Our department is particular strong in media and public engagement. We are also home to world renown labs & centers such as the @medlabboulder.bsky.social, @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social, and the Center for Media, Religion and Culture

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Get Our Latest Zine, on Open Source Governance: "Change Is In the Cards" www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

Cover of a zine called "Change Is in the Cards: Governance Transitions in Open Source Communities"

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

New in CommunityRule: User Login, Rule Editing, and More: www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2... ^ See the latest updates from research fellow Rohit Taware on updates to our CommunityRule.info platform!

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New in CommunityRule: User Login, Rule Editing, and More | Media Economies Design Lab | University of Colorado Boulder

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

MEDLab fellow Adina Glickstein has a byline in today's @nytimes.com Magazine! On sharing map pins as a salve for loneliness: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/m...

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 08/01/2024

Just out! James Brennan and I have co-written a chapter in The Lab Book by @loriemerson.bsky.social et al., featuring the self-hosting practices of @medlabboulder.bsky.social: manifold.umn.edu/read/lab-clo...

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Now We Know: Exit to Community Is Possible www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2...

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Recording is now up from today's webinar! Where I Went Wrong: Marjorie Kelly on Why Advancing Ethical Business Isn't Enough www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/09…

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Next week, join us for a webinar on how nonprofits are using emerging social networks—like Bluesky, Mastodon, and more—to advance their missions. Open Social Media: Nonprofits FTW www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06…

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Open Social Media: Nonprofits FTW | Media Economies Design Lab | University of Colorado Boulder

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 07/06/2023

This summer, we're doing a series of events on #OpenSocialMedia—the new explosion of platforms and protocols. Up first: OPEN SOCIAL MEDIA: ORIGIN STORIES Next Tuesday, online and free for all. Learn more & register: www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06…

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

Next, this summer, we're doing an event series on decentralized social media, focused especially on its potential for civil society—nonprofits and local government. More to come soon!

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

Here are a few things we've been up to lately!

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MEDLab @ CU Boulder @medlabboulder.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

Hello, Bluesky! We're a university lab exploring democratic ownership and governance in the online economy. We're excited to see where this experiment here leads.

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