Trebor scholz biography

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Trebor Scholz (1969, East Berlin) is a German-American writer, educator, activist, artist, and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture.
Trebor Scholz is a professor at The New School in New York City, a Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, and a Visiting Researcher at the Berlin.

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Platform Cooperatives with Trebor Scholz

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Trebor's bio: R. Trebor Scholz is a researcher, author, and advocate for fair and sustainable digital labor practices. He is a professor and the founding director of The New School’s Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) in New York City, where he also operates a research institute with a fellowship program.

Trebor has worked to develop and promote a set of models for building worker-owned and democratically-controlled online platforms, known as “platform cooperatives.” He is the author of several books on the subject of platform labor, including Own This! How Platform Cooperatives Change the World, forthcoming with Verso in 2023, and Uber-Worked And Underpaid: How Workers are Disrupting the Digital Economy, which introduced the concept of platform cooperatives.

In addition to his work at the PCC, Trebor has been a fellow at the Open Society Foundations, the Berggruen Institute, and Mondragon University, and is a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He keynotes event

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Trebor Scholz

Trebor Scholz (1969, East Berlin) is a German-American writer, educator, activist, artist, and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at the New School, New York City.  He was raised in a Russian-language school and has since lived in London, Dresden, Weimar, Portland, Buffalo, Tucson, Zurich, and San Francisco. Today, Scholz is Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School. He is an activist in favor of worker rights in the sharing economy and a proponent of platform cooperativism as well as universal basic income. His teaching has focused on themes like global media activism and extra-institutional, self-organized learning. Scholz has convened nine major conferences including the series of three digital labor conferences at The New School. He has presented keynotes and lectures at conferences worldwide. He also founded the platform for online discussions of critical network culture Institute for Distributed Creativity (2004). 

Scholz has facilitated large-scale programs such as Kosov@: Carnival in the Eye of the Storm

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Bio

Trebor Scholz is an artist, writer, conference organizer and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at The New School in NYC where he is an Assistant Professor of Media Study.

His forthcoming monograph with Polity offers a history of the Social Web and its Orwellian economies. In 2011, he co-authored From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (with Laura Y. Liu). Scholz is the editor of two collections of essays, Learning Through Digital Media (iDC, 2011) and a volume on digital labor (Routledge, 2012). He co-edited the Situated Technologies series of 9 books and The Art of Free Cooperation (Autonomedia, 2007). Recent book chapters include “Facebook as Playground and Factory,” “Points of Control,” and “Cheaper by the Dozen. An Introduction to Crowdsourcing.” Scholz spoke at 150 conferences internationally. He also founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity that is widely known for its online discussions of critical network culture.

Dr. Scholz holds a grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.He chaired seven major confer