Introduction
David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and writes technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute.Bollier collaborated with television writer/producer Norman Lear on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects from 1985 to 2010.
Bollier was founding editor of On the Commons (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website, Bollier.org.Bollier calls his work “exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture.”
Bollier co-founded the public interest group Public Knowledge in 2002 and served as a board member until 2010. He was awarded the 2012 Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy at the American Academy in Berlin.
Books
- Think Like a Commoner:A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons" (New Society Publishers), 2014) [1]
- Green Governance:Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Law of the Commons" (with co-author Burns H. Weston) (Cambridge University Press), 2012) [2]
- The Wealth of the Commons:A World Beyond Market and State" (with co-editor Silke Helfrich) (Levellers Press, 2012) [3]
- Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press, 2009) [4]
- Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity (Lear Center Press, 2006)[5]
- Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) [6]
- Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation (with Thomas McGarity and Sidney Shapiro; Environmental Law Institute, 2004)
- Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content (Norman Lear Center, 2003)[7]
- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge, 2002)[8]
- Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision. (AMACOM, 1996)
- The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters (Yale University Press, 1991)
- Crusaders & Criminals, Victims & Visionaries: Historic Encounters Between Connecticut Citizens and the United States Supreme Court (Connecticut Attorney General, 1986)