Biography

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 <a href="http://www.onthecommons.org/">*On the Commons*</a> (2003-2010), and now blogs at his own website, <a href="http://bollier.org/">Bollier.org</a>. 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.

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Books by David Bollier

Think Like a Commoner, Second
Think Like a Commoner, Second Edition
2025
Great Regeneration
Great Regeneration
2023
We Built a Village
We Built a Village
2022
The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking
The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking
2021
Free, Fair and Alive
Free, Fair and Alive
2019
State Power and Commoning
State Power and Commoning
2016
Patterns of commoning
Patterns of commoning
2015
The Weightless Marketplace
The Weightless Marketplace
2014
Think like a Commoner
Think like a Commoner
2014
Green Governance
Green Governance
2013
The promise and peril of big data
The promise and peril of big data
2010
Viral Spiral
Viral Spiral
2009
The Rise of Collective Intelli
The Rise of Collective Intelligence
2007
Brand Name Bullies
Brand Name Bullies
2005
Information Technology And the
Information Technology And the New Global Economy
2005
Sophisticated sabotage
Sophisticated sabotage
2004
Rise of Netpolitik
Rise of Netpolitik
2003
In Search of the Public Interest in the New Media Environment
In Search of the Public Interest in the New Media Environment
2002
Saving the information commons
Saving the information commons
2002
Silent Theft
Silent Theft
2002
Why the public domain matters
Why the public domain matters
2002
Public assets, private profits
Public assets, private profits
2001
The global wave of entrepreneu
The global wave of entrepreneurialism
1999
How smart growth can stop spra
How smart growth can stop sprawl
1998
Work and future society
Work and future society
1998
The networked society
The networked society
1997
Aiming higher
Aiming higher
1996
Future of Electronic Commerce (A Communications & Society Program Book)
Future of Electronic Commerce (A Communications & Society Program Book)
1996
The Future of Community & Pers
The Future of Community & Personal Identity in the Coming Electronic Culture (A Communications & Society Program Book Series)
1996
The future of community and pe
The future of community and personal identity in the coming electronic culture
1995
The Promise and Perils of Emerging Information Technologies
The Promise and Perils of Emerging Information Technologies
1994
Electronic Media Regulation an
Electronic Media Regulation and the First Amendment
1991
The Information Evolution
The Information Evolution
1989
The Social Impact of Widesprea
The Social Impact of Widespread Computer Use
1989
Crusaders & criminals, victims
Crusaders & criminals, victims & visionaries
1986
Freedom from harm
Freedom from harm
1986
Liberty & justice for some
Liberty & justice for some
1982
How to appraise and improve yo
How to appraise and improve your daily newspaper
1980
Pensar desde los comunes
Pensar desde los comunes