How do we organize across borders? On this month’s episode, MEDLab’s Stephanie Abdalla sits down with journalist and organizer Raza Gillani to talk about how reporting the news and building movements can go hand in hand. #MEDLab #journalism #activism #media

MeDLab is looking for 10 students to join our Creative Cohort this fall, a paid media project on community ownership and economic democracy. If you have a passion for graphic design, storytelling, videography, or anything creative, apply today! #MEDLab #CUBoulder #Creative

How do we pay attention to music? This month on Looks Like New, host Alex Lipka speaks with educator and drummer, Steve Lamos on his relationship with education, writing, music, and infrastructure of the industry. #MEDLab #Music #Writing

Who gets to make the rules online? New this month on Looks Like New, host Júlia Martins Rodrigues talks with Princeton's Sohyeon Hwang about who governs subreddits, fandom wikis, and Mastodon servers and what it would take to share that power #MEDLab #Governance #Power #Tech

How can VR tell the story of genocide? This month on Looks Like New, Stephanie Abdalla speaks with Dr. Naim Aburaddi, co-director of the Phoenix of Gaza XR Project documenting Gaza's resistance against destruction, culture, and history via immersive tech. #VR #Gaza #MEDLab

Who owns the commons? In this episode we talk with Lauren Gardner about building infrastructure for open-source projects and why lessons from DIY arts spaces like Babycastles & School for Poetic Computation might hold the key to collective digital life. #MEDLab #Community #Tech

This month, Timnit Gebru joins MEDLab fellow Stephanie Abdalla to discuss AI ethics, the history of AGI, and resistance shaping alternative AI futures. Founder of Distributed AI Research Institute and co-founder of Black in AI. #MEDLab #AI #Ethics #Future

What is the future of digital capitalism? This month we talk with Nick Srnicek about platform capitalism, automation, and the political forces shaping our digital economy asking who owns the platforms, who benefits from them, and how their future could be built differently.

What can ancient cosmologies teach the future? This month Kadallah Burrowes talks with Ytasha Womack about Afrofuturism as active world-building, how imagination, ancient cosmologies, rhythm, and storytelling shape more humane tech and the futures we’re already living.