Portrait of Nathan Schneider in front of the Flatirons
Assistant Professor
Media Studies

Office: Armory 1B24

Assistant Professor Nathan Schneider (he/him) studies technology, democracy, and religion. His current project is an exploration of models for democratic ownership and governance for online platforms and protocols. He is founder of the .

Schneider is the author of , most recently , published by University of California Press in 2024, and , published by Bold Type Books in 2018. He edited Vitalik Buterin’s book and co-edited . Recent scholarship has been published in New Media & Society, Feminist Media Studies, theÌýGeorgetown Law Technology Review, andÌýMedia, Culture & Society, among other journals. He has also reported for publications including ±á²¹°ù±è±ð°ù’s, The Nation, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and others, along with regular columns for America, a national Catholic magazine. He has lectured at universities including Columbia, Fordham, Harvard, MIT, NYU, the University of Bologna, and Yale. He serves on the boards of the Metagovernance Project, Start.coop, Waging Nonviolence, and Zebras Unite. Follow his work on his website, .

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