Doug Schuler

Biography
Doug Schuler is a former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a founding member of the Seattle Community Network (SCN). Doug has written several books and articles, including New Community Networks: Wired for Change.

His new books co-edited with Peter Day are Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press) and Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action/Global Interaction (Routledge). He also co-edited Cyberculture: The Key Concepts with David Bell, Brian Loader, and Nicholas Pleace.

For over nearly 20 years Doug has been engaged with issues relating to society and computing, mostly as an activist with CPSR. He has worked on many CPSR projects including all eight of CPSR’s biannual symposia on the “Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing” (DIAC) conferences, which provide a public forum for social implications of computers. Currently, he is a faculty member (Evening and Weekend Studies) of The Evergreen State College where he teaches and learns about technology and social implications of the network society. Doug is currently the program director for CPSR’s Public Sphere Project where he is helping to construct a large Pattern Language for Participation, Action, and Change.

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