Bruce Caron on Clubhouse

Bio

Bruce is an active online-community architect, and is looking to help virtual science organizations build community governance and achieve their promise. He recently completed a stint as the Community Architect of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). He is a co-founder of the EarthArXiv preprint service. He recently published the Open Scientist Handbook <https://doi.org/10.21428/8bbb7f85.35a0e14b>.

Bruce is the founder of the New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute in Santa Barbara. Bruce is trained as a social anthropologist and an urban cultural geographer. Through the New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute, with funding from NASA and the NSF, he and his team realized the goal of bringing new tools and skills to the public to help democratize the technological advantages of the digital revolution.

In 2007, Bruce helped create a public awareness action in Santa Barbara, lightblueline.org, which proposed to paint the seven-meter elevation contour on that city’s streets, to mark the vulnerability the community faces due to human induced climate change. In 2010 he was awarded the Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award from the ESIP Federation. His fiction work includes the Junana Trilogy (available online at: <https://junana.pubpub.org/>), which outlines an alternative present, where the promise of educational gaming turns the world on its head as hundreds of millions of teenagers know more than their parents, teachers, and the marketplace. Game-B becomes a reality. He blogs at https://cybersocialstructure.org/

Bruce's work has been supported by the NSF, NASA, NIH, The Paul G. Allan Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Google, Inc.