Technologies & Ecosystems
Relational Source License
Research
Patterns of Practice
Protocols that include:
- Size and sizing
- Activities
- Built environments
- Network architecture
- Aspects of groups
- Types of interactions
- Spectrums of public and private
- Different cycles & seasons
- In-between places
- Accommodation of different modes of engagement
- Economic activity and relationships
- Positionality (within and beyond groups)
- Thresholds and boundaries
- Norms
- Information channels
Selected Upcoming Research Topics
- What happens when money enters into volunteer-run projects & orgs?
- What considerations do we need for the social layer of shared data management security?
- How can we align incentives of funding for prosocial tech?
- What are best practices of network-level bottom-up governance?
- What resources can we collect and share on getting out of Big Tech for groups?