R&D Unplugged #12 - discover our research

10 April 2025 - 11:00 - 12:00 CET

Join us for R&D Unplugged #12 with Seth Frey

Online communities as model systems for collective self-determination

The best citizens of a large-scale democracy are those who have participated in several small democracies. By enabling people to build any kind of community together, the Internet has become a laboratory for experimenting with self-governance. Groups creating online communities have to overcome the difficulties of recruiting limited resources around common goals. By examining three major platforms for small, self-governing online communities, we'll ask several questions about small-scale democracy, self-governance and community management of natural resources.

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More about the speaker

Presentation of the speaker :Seth Frey is a computational social scientist who studies governance institutions for the commons and other complex social systems. He specializes in the use of online communities as model systems for emerging institutional and organizational phenomena. He is an associate professor in communication at the University of California at Davis, affiliated with the’Ostrom workshop at Indiana University and director of research at Metagov. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a researcher in complex systems at the NECSI. Seth received a PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science (Complex Systems) from Indiana University in 2013, as well as a BSc in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.

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