David Bollier
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David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist.[1] He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group,[2] Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication,[3] and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010.
Bollier was founding editor of (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website, Bollier.org. Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.”[4]
Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge in 2002 and served as a board member until 2010. He was awarded the 2012 Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin.[5]
Books[]
- Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons (with co-author Silke Helfrich) (New Society Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-0865719217)
- Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons" (New Society Publishers), 2014) [1]
- Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons" (with co-author Burns H. Weston) (Cambridge University Press), 2012) [2]
- The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State" (with co-editor Silke Helfrich) (Levellers Press, 2012) [3]
- Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press, 2009) [4]
- Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (Lear Center Press, 2006)[5]
- Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) [6]
- Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation (with Thomas McGarity and Sidney Shapiro; Environmental Law Institute, 2004)
- Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content (Norman Lear Center, 2003)[7][permanent dead link]
- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge, 2002) [8]
- Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision. (AMACOM, 1996)
- The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters (Yale University Press, 1991)
- Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court (Connecticut Attorney General, 1986)
References[]
- ^ "Reclaiming the Commons". Boston Review. 2002. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- ^ "David Bollier". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- ^ "Senior Fellow David Bollier". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- ^ David Bollier: About.
- ^ American Academy in Berlin: Berlin Prize Fellows. Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
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