At its best, the peer economy can reintegrate people who are defined out of the traditional workplace. At its worst, it exploits human labor and degrades human dignity.
Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place
The potential benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding as a means of executing community-oriented projects in the built environment.
Coco Fusco joins as an MLK Visiting Scholar for 2014-15
The acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and writer will serve in CMS/W.
My Pins Are My Dreams: Pinterest, Collective Daydreams, and the Aspirational Gap
The socially-networked nature of Pinterest allows a new type of malleable, global and taste-based community to develop that can engage in collective imaginative play.
Network Design: A Theory of Scale for Ubiquitous Computing
The operation of ubiquitous computing networks at three scales: the body scale, the architectural scale and the urban scale.
A New Kind of Media Theory
Professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.
Podcast: Philip Jones, “Gaming in Color”
A discussion of Gaming in Color, a full-length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
