Dr. Kelsie Nabben (@kelsiemvn) is an ethnographic researcher specializing in the social impacts of emerging technologies, particularly decentralized digital infrastructure (including blockchains, peer-to-peer protocols, and DAOs) and other algorithmic systems (such as LLMs).

She joined the Techquitable podcast to discuss computer aided ethnography, her research on distributed systems, Web 3’s Security Alliance and much more.

Timestamps:

[1:45] - Kelsie’s unique background

[3:45] - Resilience and decentralized technologies

[6:40] - Research challenges in digital world

[9:20] - Vulnerabilities in digital networks

[17:50] - Dr. Nabben’s early findings

[27:00] - Accountability in Web 3

[31:00] - Social and technical governance

[38:00] - Future role of decentralized technologies

Dr. Nabben’s work includes:

(1) Is a "Decentralized Autonomous Organization" a Panopticon?: Algorithmic governance as creating and mitigating vulnerabilities in DAOs: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3907693
(2) Governing Blockchain Security: White Hat Hackers ‘Code of Conduct’: https://kelsienabben.substack.com/p/governing-blockchain-security-white

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