Digital Ethnography in Blockchain Governance Reading Group

The latest Mint & Burn podcast features the first episode in a monthly ‘reading group’ series on digital ethnography in blockchain governance which is a collaboration with RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and The Metagovernance Project

Tara Merk from BlockchainGov says this initiative via the Mint & Burn podcast helps to bring together people who are conducting ethnography in the blockchain space or interested to know more about it.

“Blockchain communities exist in online and offline environments and mediated by pier-to-pier technologies that can be tricky to change so ethnography research is key” she says.  “This series will provide exposure to the diversity of the different methods used and research in this space.”

Each session will focus on a paper and discussion with the author about how their research, the challenges and the learnings they take from it together with Q&A.

The first episode is now available and will focus will be on the paper by Wassim Alsindi which has been published in the MIT Computational Law Report here on governance in the blockchain sphere dealing with bitcoin and looks at evaluating the use of technological solutions in order to overcome social challenges in governance as it evolves in crypto.