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Jenny Ryan
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
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about meAn incorrigibly nomadic cyberanthropologist gone gonzo, I recently dropped out of graduate school to more fully tune in to emerging movements rooted in the shared struggle to reclaim the commons, create public spheres through the cultivation of open spaces, and enable direct democracy through principles of federation and open source or Read/Write culture. In my spare time, I make websites for my superhero friends, help to organize an emerging Oakland hackerspace (Sudo Room), and serve as a FOSS evangelist and connector of aligned humans, groups and projects. |
my projects Eudea - A Wikitown that aspires to become the world’s first technologically-oriented ecovillage.
 Sudo Room - Building a hackerspace in downtown Oakland.
 The Pyre - A collaborative, open source project to COLLATe utf8mb4_unicode_ci DIY toolkit for building resilient communities. |
Contact me
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Writing
Articles
- Hacking the Commons: How to Start a Hackerspace -Shareable.net, November 2012
Academic
- "The Digital Graveyard: Online Social Networking Sites as Vehicles of Remembrance," in Mike Wesch and Neil Whitehead (eds.), Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology. University of Colorado Press. August 2012. PDF Buy on Amazon
- "Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content," with danah boyd and Alex Leavitt. Journal of Information Law & Society, Winter 2011.
- "Weaving the Underground Web: Neotribalism and Psytrance on Tribe.net," in Graham St. John (ed.), The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. Routledge: New York & London. June 2010. PDF Buy on Amazon
- The Virtual Campfire: An Ethnography of Online Social Networking. Master's Thesis, May 2008. PDF Website
Poetry
- Neurotica (2004-2009)
- Linguistic Alchemystic (coming soon!)