Michelle Thorne (Creative Commons)
Michelle Thorne | |
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University of Leipzig | |
| Occupation | Mozilla Foundation |
| Known for | Mozilla |
Michelle Thorne (born 1985) is an
She is the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the Green Web Foundation an organization focused on climate justice related to the Internet.[1] She served 12 years with the Mozilla Foundation in a number of different roles, including in her final years as Mozilla's Sustainable Internet Lead.[2]
She is the editor of an award-winning[3] online magazine, Branch.
Early life and education
Thorne grew up in
Career
She worked as the international project manager for Creative Commons from 2007 to 2011[4] and joined the Mozilla Foundation as Global Event Strategist in 2011.[5] She organized the Drumbeat Festival and the first several editions of the Mozilla Festival, which grew to be the largest annual gathering of the Mozilla community.[6]
She is co-author of the book Understanding the Connected Home: Thoughts on living in tomorrow's connected home in 2016 with Jon Rogers.
She was a founding member of the Awesome Foundation Berlin, which is no longer active.[10]
In 2020, she founded the online magazine Branch to convene people and ideas on how to make the internet itself more sustainable for the planet.[11] She is also a Senior Program Officer on Mozilla's Fellowships and Awards team.[12]
Honors and awards
- 2021: Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity for the online magazine Branch[13]
Bibliography
Books
- Thorne, Michelle; Bihr, Peter (2016). Understanding the Connected Home: Thoughts on living in tomorrow's connected home (2nd Edition)
Articles
- Taylor, Nick; Rogers, Jon; Clarke, Loraine; Skelly, Martin; Wallace, Jayne; Thomas, Pete; George, Babitha; Raj, Romit; Shorter, Mike; Thorne, Michelle. Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT (2021)[14]
- Jansen, Fieke; Thorne, Michelle (2020) Trustworthy AI and the Climate Crisis – Towards Better Policies in the EU, The State of Responsible IoT, Lancaster University
- Rogers, Jon; Clarke, Loraine; Skelly, Martin; Taylor, Nick ; Thomas, Pete; Thorne, Michelle; Larsen, Solana; Odrozek, Katarzyna; Kloiber, Julia; Bihr, Peter; Jain, Anab; Arden, Jon; von Grafenstein, Max (2019) Our friends electric: Reflections on advocacy and design research for the voice enabled internet, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2019 Paper No.: 114 (Pages 1–13)[15]
- Thorne, Michelle (August 2014). How You Run a Meeting Says a Lot About Your Values: Participatory Practices for Open Communities, OpenSym '14: Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration[16]
- Thorne, Michelle et al. book sprint(2011) An Open Web. FLOSS Manuals, ARTE Creative.[17]
- Thorne, Michelle; Cobcroft, Rachel (2009) Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative" (PDF), Free Culture Research Workshop, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard Law School.[18]
Speaking
Thorne regularly organizes events and gives talks about the commons, open design, and collaborative consumption.[19][20][21][22][23]
Her design challenges for sharable objects were cited by Bruce Sterling[24] and she was interviewed in the film The Future of Art.[25]
References
- ^ "Meet our Team". Green Web Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
- ^ "Mozilla Sustainability". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ "Ars Electronica Digital Humanity Award 2021". Ars Electronica. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "Creative Commons People". Creative Commons. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
- ^ "Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla". Mark Surman. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ISBN 978-1-7363320-1-6. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ Thorne, Michelle. "Understanding the Connected Home: Thoughts on living in tomorrow's connected home". Michelle Thorne. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ Taylor, Niche. "University of Dundee and Mozilla announce doctoral programme for 'Healthier IoT'". OpenDoTT. University of Northumbria. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "About Ding". DingDingDing. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "The Awesome Foundation Berlin Trustees". Jesse Chan-Norris. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ Thorne, Michelle (2020). "About Branch". Branch. No. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "Fellowships and Awards Team". Mozilla Foundation. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "Ars Electronica Digital Humanity Award 2021". Ars Electronica. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- S2CID 235663037.
- S2CID 140224517. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- S2CID 20202715. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
- ^ "Transmediale Open Web Booksprint". ARTE Creative. Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative" (PDF). Thorne, Michelle and Cobcroft, Rachel. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
- ^ "Designing for Collaborative Consumption". republica2010. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "TEDxKreuzberg". TED. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Scratch Conference Amsterdam 2015". Scratch. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ^ "To Culture With Love 2011". To Culture With Love. Archived from the original on 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ^ "UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2015 Equitable Access". UNESCO. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
- ^ Sterling, Bruce (2010-12-13). "Designing for Collaborative Consumption". WIRED. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
- ^ "Gabriel Shalom, retour vers les futurs". Vogue Paris. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
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