Notes on Contributors

      Nicholas Anastasopoulos is an architect, researcher, and assistant professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens. He holds a PhD from the same university in alternative communities and sustainability and a MArch from Yale. He has taught at Patras University, Parsons School of Design (NYC), and elsewhere. As postdoctoral Prometeo Researcher (IAEN, Ecuador, 2014) he contributed to the FLOK Society project and conducted research on aspects of Buen Vivir and sustainability. Nicholas has conducted extensive research and collaborated with architects, artists, and researchers in Ecuador, Europe, and South America. He initiated the MET workshop and the Ports in Transition Workshops (Europe and South America) for spatial policies. His research interests concern the commons, communities, systems theory, ecology, and complexity. He is currently academic representative and senior researcher in charge on behalf of NTUA for SoPHIA, a H2020 consortium research program aiming to create a Social Platform on Holistic Impact Assessment of European Cultural Heritage.

      Panayotis Antoniadis is the co‐founder of NetHood, a Zurich‐based non‐profit organization that combines research and action in the development of tools for self‐organization and conviviality, bringing together different forms of commoning in the city such as community networks, complementary currencies, and cooperative housing. http://nethood.org/panayotis/

      Michel Bauwens is a Peer‐to‐Peer (P2P) theorist and a writer, researcher, and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture, and business innovation. He is a theorist in the emerging field of P2P theory and the director and founder of the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers and activists working collaboratively to explore peer production, governance, and property. He has authored a number of books and essays, including his seminal essay “The Political Economy of Peer Production.” In 2014, Michel was the research director of the transition project towards the social knowledge economy, an official project in Ecuador (see floksociety.org). This project produced a first integrated Commons Transition Plan for the government of Ecuador, in order to create a “social knowledge economy.” In 2016, Michel was Honorary Fellow/Visiting Scholar with the Havens Center at UW‐Madison, as an “activist in resident” funded by the Link Foundation.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, USA. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006), which won academic awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the McGannon award for social and ethical relevance in communications. His work is socially engaged, winning him the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for 2007, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. Benkler has advised governments and international organizations on innovation policy and telecommunications, and serves on the boards or advisory boards of several nonprofits engaged in working towards an open society. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org.

      Benjamin J. Birkinbine is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. His research is grounded in the critical political economy of communication tradition with a specific focus on the digital commons and free and open source software. He is the author of Incorporating the Commons (University of Westminster Press, 2020) and the co‐editor (along with Rodrigo Gómez and Janet Wasko) of Global Media Giants (Routledge, 2017). He is currently a Vice Chair of the Political Economy section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

      Peter Bloom holds a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Master’s degree in Rural Development from the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Xochimilco, Mexico. He was the founder in 2002 and ex‐director of Juntos, the first organization in Philadelphia dedicated to organizing and defending the human rights of Latino immigrants. In 2009 Peter began working in Nigeria as a development consultant and media maker and lived in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria for two years, co‐founding the Media for Justice Project based outside of Port Harcourt. Since 2011 Peter has been coordinating Rhizomatica, an organization he started to promote new communication technologies that helps run the first community‐owned and managed cell phone network in the Americas.

      Yana Boeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of Technology and Environment, Institute for Social Sciences, as well as at the Cluster of Excellence on Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture based at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She has studied makerspaces and fab labs in Western Europe and Canada focusing on the socio‐political and historical dimensions of digital fabrication in design towards de‐professionalization of design practice, concepts of expertise, and notions of re‐industrialization. Her current research explores the transformation of design, architectural practice, and different user perceptions with the inclusion of active matter and automation in contemporary fabrication models. She holds a PhD (2018) in Science and Technology Studies from York University, Toronto, and an MA (2011) in Media Studies from Humboldt University Berlin.

      Margie Borschke is the author of This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). She is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

      Kat Braybrooke is a designer and digital anthropologist whose work explores the critical implications of the spaces and practices of creative digital communities in places like Europe and China as sites of social and environmental transformation. She is Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex, UK, and Visiting Researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Web: http://codekat.net.

      Sébastien Broca is a sociologist. He is currently Associate Professor in the Media and Communication Department at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint‐Denis, France. He works on digital capitalism and on the digital commons, at the crossroads of political economy and critical theory. He has published Utopie du logiciel libre (Le passager clandestin, 2013). He is currently involved in the research projects EnCommuns and TAPAS and is co‐editor of the scholarly journal Anthropology&Materialism. sebastien.broca@univ‐paris8.fr

Stéphane Couture is an assistant professor at University of Montreal, Canada. Trained in computer science, sociology, and communication studies, he has completed several research projects on the collaborative practices and cultures of free and open source software. He has also studied and