My first start-up was an MMO company. My role was to design the socioeconomic and governance structures for an online world. It was wonderfully geeky opportunity for a 20-year-old political theory major and gamer. As Raph Koster has written, the advent of many-to-many live video (Facebook Live; Periscope) and augmented reality gaming (Pokemon Go) has… Continue reading Facebook Live, BLM, and the Nature of Rights in Virtual Space
Category: Politics
Next Level Astroturfing
The for-profit appropriation of social movements is in full swing. When companies like @Uber organize "grassroots" efforts, who's the user, and who's being used? http://t.co/yl9zNCmzeQ pic.twitter.com/LwlUJ5BDOL — New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) August 6, 2015 “Rhetoric of philanthropy in pursuit of profit — strategy at which Coursera has shown exceptional skill” https://t.co/V7v3yIKOJj ^ @podehaye —… Continue reading Next Level Astroturfing
Making the Orange Surge Permanent
[To start, an admission of bias. My political beliefs were imparted when Ed Broadbent stepped on me while I was playing in the aisle of an anti-nuke rally in the 80s.] What I do for a living is help people understand new ideas and points-of-view in their own language, on their own terms. I’ve built… Continue reading Making the Orange Surge Permanent
Geoffrey MacDougall 