<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Hi, everyone--</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
I just graduated from MIT with a Masters in Comparative Media Studies, where I researched the <a href="http://hidenise.com/post/54356670782/mit-thesis-reading-between-the-lines-blueprints" target="_blank">peer economy from a labor perspective</a>. I've been following the regulatory efforts around Uber, Airbnb, Lyft closely over the last two years (reading the bills, exchanges, etc.) and have been in conversation with providers across those platforms as well as policy directors for those companies. I've also <a href="http://hidenise.com/post/52612284106/visibility" target="_blank">spoken publicly about this subject</a>. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Trebor beautifully fleshes out a hurdle in this area, which is the poor terminology and how that skewers the conversation. This has real world implications; I elaborated on these implications in a lightning talk at a "sharing economy" conference, and it might be helpful in framing our conversation here:</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><a href="http://civic.mit.edu/blog/hidenise/peer-economy-keep-it-real-to-catalyze-the-sharing-economy" target="_blank">http://civic.mit.edu/blog/hidenise/peer-economy-keep-it-real-to-catalyze-the-sharing-economy</a><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Anyhow, am happy to talk about the peer economy anytime. I recently received a <a href="http://blog.fuselabs.org/post/89276576126/announcing-the-peer-economy-research-projects-receiving" target="_blank">gift from Microsoft Research</a> to do more ethnographic fieldwork in the area, and am locating the cadre of scholars interested in the p2p marketplace side of things.</div>
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--</div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Denise Cheng</font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/hiDenise" target="_blank">@hiDenise</a></div>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span class="" style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">Trebor</span> Scholz <<a href="mailto:scholzt@newschool.edu" target="_blank">scholzt@newschool.edu</a>><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><b>[iDC] The Sharing Economy<br></b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px">June 30, 2014 at 1:22:20 PM EDT<br>
</span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12.727272033691406px">"<a href="mailto:idc@mailman.thing.net" target="_blank">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:idc@mailman.thing.net" target="_blank">idc@mailman.thing.net</a>></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font>Greetings from balmy New York City. It has been exciting to read through all of your proposals and now the introductions, and posts to the mailing list. </blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font>This is just as good a time as any to jump in and say hello, starting with a reference to a short intervention that I just wrote for Public Seminar, trying to decompress my thoughts about the so-called "sharing economy." I will just leave it at that and see if there is anybody on the list who has followed the protests against Uber, and the regulatory efforts concerning Airbnb. </blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><a href="http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/06/the-politics-of-the-sharing-economy/#.U7FkPaiXvjA" target="_blank">http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/06/the-politics-of-the-sharing-economy/#.U7FkPaiXvjA</a> </blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font>~ <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Trebor</span> </span></blockquote>
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R. <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Trebor</span> Scholz<br>Associate Professor<br>Culture & Media Department<br>THE NEW SCHOOL<br>65 West 11th Street<br>
New York, NY 10011</blockquote><div style><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"></blockquote></div></div>
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