MAKO

I am a social scientist and technologist. In both roles, I work to understand the social dynamics that shape online communities. My work focuses on communities engaged in the peer production of digital public goods free culture and free software-like Wikipedia and Linux. For most of my life, I have also participated in these communities as an activist, contributor, and leader. I spend most of my time consuming, and increasingly often producing, academic articles, software, blog posts, essays, books and talks... You can follow my latest musings and projects on my weblog Copyrighteous. I microblog infrequently as mako@social.coop in the Fediverse and as @makoshark on Twitter... University of Washington: I am an Associate Professor in the University of Washington Department of Communication. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and the Information School and I am..

Primary location: Seattle United States