Law of Code #56 - Kelsie Nabben on DAO Research, Ethnography, and the History of Cryptography
Kelsie Nabben (@kelsiemvn) is a researcher of decentralized technology communities. As an ethnographic researcher, she is interested in the human outcomes of digital infrastructure, blockchain community culture, and algorithmic governance. Kelsie is also a recipient of a PhD scholarship at the RMIT University Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, a Fellow at the DAO Research Collective, and a researcher in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and Blockchain Innovation Hub.
Show highlights:
[1:51] Kelsie's introduction to Bitcoin
[6:15] Ethnography & her current role
[13:00] How to study a DAO
[15:05] Decentralization
[21:19] Autonomousness & Automation
[30:22] Sovereignty and DAOs
[43:00] Resilience and "Good Governance"
[56:55] Habits & advice
Show links & Kelsie's writing:
Blockchain Security as “People Security”: Applying Sociotechnical Security to Blockchain Technology
Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance
Steven Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Aligning ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics
Imagining Human-Machine Futures: Blockchain-based 'Decentralized Autonomous Organizations'
Towards a model of resilience in decentralised socio-technical infrastructure
DAO Vulnerabilities: A Multi-Scale DAO Ecosystem Mapping Tool Towards Computer-Aided Governance
DAO Vulnerabilities: A Map of Lido Governance Risks & Opportunities
‘Crypto-States’ Will Compete With Corporates in the Metaverse