Doug Schuler has a masters degree in Software Engineering from Seattle
University and a masters degree in Computer Science from the University
of Washington. He's a former chair of Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (CPSR), a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN), and a
faculty member of The Evergreen
State College where
he
teaches and learns
about civic intelligence, social imagination,
technology, and social implications of the
network society.
Doug's new book Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for
Communication Revolution which was published in November,
2008 contains 136 patterns was written by Doug and over 80 contributors. His
recent books, co-edited with Peter Day, are
Shaping the Network
Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press) and
Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global
Interaction (Routledge). He also co-edited Cyberculture: The Key
Concepts (Routledge) with David Bell, Brian Loader, and Nicholas
Pleace. His book New Community Networks: Wired for Change
(Addison-Wesley) is freely available online in both English and Spanish.
For over 20 years Doug has been engaged with issues relating to society
and computing, mostly as an activist with CPSR. He has worked on many
CPSR projects including all eight of CPSR's biannual symposia on the
"Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing"
(DIAC) conferences,
which provide a public forum for social implications of computers. Doug
is currently the program director for CPSR's Public Sphere Project
where he is coordinating a participatory action / research project on
civic intelligence.
(definition /
blog)
Doug has given presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South and
North America on issues related to democratic, equitable and
sustainable uses of technology. Please see his
presentations page for
a more extensive listing.
Books
-
Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for
Communication Revolution (MIT Press, 2008).
-
Shaping the Network
Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004)
co-edited with Peter Day.
-
Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global
Interaction" (Routledge, 2004)
co-edited with Peter Day.
-
Cyberculture: The Key
Concepts (Routledge, 2004) co-edited with David Bell, Brian Loader, and Nicholas
Pleace.
-
New Community Networks: Wired
for Change, published in 1996
by Addison-Wesley,
is now online.
Thanks go to the Morino
Institute for their initial support of putting the bibliography
and the appendices online.
Nuevas Redes Comunitarias,
a Spanish language edition is currently being developed.
-
Public Space in Cyberspace: Library Advocacy in the Information Age
Doug Schuler and Jamie McClelland; published by
Libraries for the Future.
- Participatory Design: Principles and Practices. Edited by
Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka. Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
- Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Studies
in Computing
as a Social Practice. Edited by Philip Agre and Doug Schuler. Ablex
Publishing CO.
- Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing. Edited by
Jonathan Jacky and Doug Schuler. Ablex Publishing CO.
Presentations
Evergreen Programs
Articles
Papers
- Community
Networks and the Evolution of Civic Intelligence, to be published
in AI & Society
- A Pattern
Language for Living Communication (From PDC '02 Proceedings)
-
Cultivating Society's Civic Intelligence: Patterns for a New
"World Brain" (pdf)
Journal of Society, Information and Communication, vol 4 No. 2
html
- Community Networks:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow From Proceedings of INET '96,
Montreal, Canada. June, 1996.
- Community Computer
Networks: An Opportunity for Collaboration Among Democratic Technology
Practitioners and Researchers. Technology and Democracy - Comparative
Perspectives. Oslo, Norway. January, 1997.
- What
Kind of Platform for Change? Democracy, Community Work, and the Internet.
Democracy and the Internet Conference. Munich, Germany. February, 1997.
Presentations
Interviews
-
Interview with Ulla Ebner
at Conference for eDemocracy and
Open Government (CeDem) at the University of the Danube, Krems Austria
-
Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution
Interview (audio) with Gavin Dahl of Digital Crossroads
-
Pesquisador vê a internet como poderosa ferramenta social
Interview with Mariana Barros, Folha de S.Paulo, December 21, 2005.
- Realizing
the Virtual Community, interview with Blake Harris, Government Technology,
August 2001.
- Doug
Schuler: New Community Networks An interview with Howard Rheingold
in Salon Magazine.
- The
Internet and Sustainable Communities. An interview with John
Horvath, Munich, February 1997. In Telepolis, a print and online journal
of net critique.
Workshops
Other
- Is there life after
death? Some thoughts on how to rescue Seattle Community Network
from its state of neglect and lack of leadership.
-
Smart
Enough Soon Enough?
Understanding and Enhancing Society's Civic Intelligence
presentation sponsored by Center for Communication and Civic Engagement,
University of Washington, May 25, 2004
(and Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten
(NIWI) Amsterdam, September 6, 2004).
- Fighting Digital Determinism, a site against mandatory laptop at Seattle's Lakeside School.
- Networking in the Information Age panel, Reclaim the Media conference,
moderated by Sheri Herndon with confirmed panelists jonathan jay (Radio X), Amoshaun (Radio X), Doug Schuler (former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility), and Lance Bennett (Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington).
-
Rich
Opportunity or Idle Dream? -- Non-Profits Using Network Technology for
Social Change Panel discussion moderated by Doug Schuler
with Jonathan Peizer (CTO, Open Society Institute), Joan Fanning (Executive Director, NPower), and CIS' Chris Coward.
Real
Video of entire session [ 1:41:43 ].
- Meet the New Medium:
Exploring the Technolgy and Social Implications of the Internet.
Syllabus, reading list, project descriptions, and other information
related to the two-quarter course at The Evergreen State College,
winter-spring 1997.
- A posting to communet on the underlying
principles for community networks and social activism.
