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'''Michelle Thorne''' (born January 15, 1985) is an [[United States|America]]n-born, [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]-based [[Creative Commons]] [[activist]]. She holds a BA ''summa cum laude'' in [[Critical social thought|Critical Social Thought]] and [[German Studies]] from [[Mount Holyoke College]], [[Massachusetts|USA]], where she wrote an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law. Thorne grew up in [[Heidelberg]], Germany. She worked as the international project manager for [[Creative Commons]] from 2007 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creativecommons.org/about/people#85 |title=Creative Commons People |publisher=Creative Commons|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101219170843/http://creativecommons.org/about/people#85 |archivedate=2010-12-19 |accessdate=2011-08-06}}</ref> In 2010 she was co-chair of the [[Mozilla Foundation]]'s Drumbeat Festival, and joined Mozilla full time in 2011<ref>[https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/michelle-joins-mofo/ Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla]</ref> as an Event Strategist.
'''Michelle Thorne''' (born January 15, 1985) is an [[United States|America]]n-born, [[Berlin]], [[Germany]]-based [[Creative Commons]] [[activist]]. She holds a BA ''summa cum laude'' in [[Critical social thought|Critical Social Thought]] and [[German Studies]] from [[Mount Holyoke College]], [[Massachusetts|USA]], where she wrote an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law. Thorne grew up in [[Heidelberg]], Germany. She worked as the international project manager for [[Creative Commons]] from 2007 to 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creativecommons.org/about/people#85 |title=Creative Commons People |publisher=Creative Commons|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20101219170843/http://creativecommons.org/about/people#85 |archivedate=2010-12-19 |accessdate=2011-08-06}}</ref> and joined the [[Mozilla Foundation]] as Global Event Strategist in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/michelle-joins-mofo/ |title=Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla |publisher=Mark Surman |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref> She is a founding member of the Awesome Foundation Berlin<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awesomefoundation.org/chapters/berlin |title=The Awesome Foundation Berlin Trustees |publisher=Jesse Chan-Norris |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>.

==Mozilla Foundation==

Thorne chaired the 2011 [https://mozillafestival.org/ Mozilla Festival] on Media, Freedom and the Web, featuring the launch of the HTML5 media framework Popcorn 1.0<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/one-millionth-tower/ |title=Premiere: One Millionth Tower High-Rise Documentary Takes Format to New Heights |publisher=WIRED |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref> and web literacy initiatives for youth and journalists<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/mozilla-festival-salutes-more-popcorn-and-less-developer-ghetto/ |title=Mozilla Festival salutes more Popcorn and less developer ghetto |publisher=TechCrunch |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>.

==Free Culture==

Thorne contributed as a core writer of ''[http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/ An Open Web]'', a book about the opportunities and challenge of the web, written in five days by six writers during a book sprint in Berlin in 2011, facilitated by [[FLOSS Manuals]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://creative.arte.tv/en/space/transmediale_tv/message/897/Transmediale_Open_Web_Booksprint/ |title=Transmediale Open Web Booksprint |publisher=ARTE Creative |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>

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In 2009 Thorne co-authored a research paper<ref>{{cite web|title=Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/sites/fcrw/images/Thorne_Cobcroft_Capturing_the_Commons_CC_Case_Studies.pdf|publisher=Thorne, Michelle and Cobcroft, Rachel|accessdate=2009-11-28}}</ref> in which the authors analyze show cases and identify key challenges to the Creative Commons Case Studies Project. This paper was published at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/Main_Page Free Culture Research Workshop] held at [[Harvard Law School]] October 23, 2009. Thorne co-organized the following year's [http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/fcrc/Home Free Culture Research Conference] in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oe1.orf.at/programm/256192 |title=Zwischen Markt und Gemeingut. Forschung über Freie Kultur |publisher=OE1 ORF |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>

==Talks and Interviews==

Thorne regularly organizes events and gives talks about the commons, open design, and collaborative consumption.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQzDVUUf8mE |title=Designing for Collaborative Consumption |publisher=republica2010 |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1755.html |title=TEDxKreuzberg |publisher=TED |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>

Her design challenges for sharable objects were cited by Bruce Sterling<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/12/designing-for-collaborative-consumption/ |title=Designing for Collaborative Consumption |publisher=WIRED |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref> and she was interviewed in the film ''[http://www.emergence.cc/futureofart/ The Future of Art]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.fr/culture/agenda/articles/le-videaste-gabriel-shalom-expose-the-future-of-money-et-le-documentaire-the-future-of-art/7065 |title=Gabriel Shalom, retour vers les futurs |publisher=Vogue Paris |accessdate=2011-11-10}}</ref>


Thorne's claim<ref>{{cite web|title=kuechenradio.org podcast: Admiralbrücke at 24:35 min|url=http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=309|publisher=kuechenradio.org|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> to being the inventor of ''nutellachino'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Thornet: HOWTO: make a nutellachino|url=http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/howto-make-a-nutellachino/|publisher=Michelle Thorne|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> a dessert combining [[Nutella]] and [[cappuccino]] powder, led to her being interviewed by the Berlin-based podcast Küchenradio.<ref>{{cite web|title=kuechenradio.org podcast: KR_178 - Bruno Cathomas (Live) at ca 16:30min|url=http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=312|publisher=kuechenradio.org|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> Also, Thorne stated<ref>{{cite web|title=Thornet:aber hallo, welt|url=http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/hello-world/|publisher=Michelle Thorne|accessdate=2008-04-29}}</ref> to be on a personal quest to beat her [[Googleganger]], a British erotica actress [[Michelle Thorne|of the same name]], at her search engine rankings.
Thorne's claim<ref>{{cite web|title=kuechenradio.org podcast: Admiralbrücke at 24:35 min|url=http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=309|publisher=kuechenradio.org|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> to being the inventor of ''nutellachino'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Thornet: HOWTO: make a nutellachino|url=http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/howto-make-a-nutellachino/|publisher=Michelle Thorne|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> a dessert combining [[Nutella]] and [[cappuccino]] powder, led to her being interviewed by the Berlin-based podcast Küchenradio.<ref>{{cite web|title=kuechenradio.org podcast: KR_178 - Bruno Cathomas (Live) at ca 16:30min|url=http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=312|publisher=kuechenradio.org|accessdate=2008-09-17}}</ref> Also, Thorne stated<ref>{{cite web|title=Thornet:aber hallo, welt|url=http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/hello-world/|publisher=Michelle Thorne|accessdate=2008-04-29}}</ref> to be on a personal quest to beat her [[Googleganger]], a British erotica actress [[Michelle Thorne|of the same name]], at her search engine rankings.


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In 2009 she co-authored a research paper<ref>{{cite web|title=Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative|url=http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/sites/fcrw/images/Thorne_Cobcroft_Capturing_the_Commons_CC_Case_Studies.pdf|publisher=Thorne, Michelle and Cobcroft, Rachel|accessdate=2009-11-28}}</ref> in which the authors analyze show cases and identify key challenges to the Creative Commons Case Studies Project. This paper was published at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fcrw/Main_Page Free Culture Research Workshop] held at [[Harvard Law School]] October 23, 2009.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 22:23, 10 November 2011

Michelle Thorne
Michelle Thorne 2007, by Joi Ito
Born (1985-01-15) January 15, 1985 (age 39)
USA
NationalityUSA
Alma materMount Holyoke College
University of Leipzig
OccupationMozilla Foundation
Known forCreative Commons

Michelle Thorne (born January 15, 1985) is an American-born, Berlin, Germany-based Creative Commons activist. She holds a BA summa cum laude in Critical Social Thought and German Studies from Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she wrote an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law. Thorne grew up in Heidelberg, Germany. She worked as the international project manager for Creative Commons from 2007 to 2011[1] and joined the Mozilla Foundation as Global Event Strategist in 2011.[2] She is a founding member of the Awesome Foundation Berlin[3].

Mozilla Foundation

Thorne chaired the 2011 Mozilla Festival on Media, Freedom and the Web, featuring the launch of the HTML5 media framework Popcorn 1.0[4] and web literacy initiatives for youth and journalists[5].

Free Culture

Thorne contributed as a core writer of An Open Web, a book about the opportunities and challenge of the web, written in five days by six writers during a book sprint in Berlin in 2011, facilitated by FLOSS Manuals.[6]

In 2009 Thorne co-authored a research paper[7] in which the authors analyze show cases and identify key challenges to the Creative Commons Case Studies Project. This paper was published at the Free Culture Research Workshop held at Harvard Law School October 23, 2009. Thorne co-organized the following year's Free Culture Research Conference in Berlin.[8]

Talks and Interviews

Thorne regularly organizes events and gives talks about the commons, open design, and collaborative consumption.[9][10]

Her design challenges for sharable objects were cited by Bruce Sterling[11] and she was interviewed in the film The Future of Art.[12]

Thorne's claim[13] to being the inventor of nutellachino,[14] a dessert combining Nutella and cappuccino powder, led to her being interviewed by the Berlin-based podcast Küchenradio.[15] Also, Thorne stated[16] to be on a personal quest to beat her Googleganger, a British erotica actress of the same name, at her search engine rankings.


References

  1. ^ "Creative Commons People". Creative Commons. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
  2. ^ "Michelle Thorne joins Mozilla". Mark Surman. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  3. ^ "The Awesome Foundation Berlin Trustees". Jesse Chan-Norris. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  4. ^ "Premiere: One Millionth Tower High-Rise Documentary Takes Format to New Heights". WIRED. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  5. ^ "Mozilla Festival salutes more Popcorn and less developer ghetto". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  6. ^ "Transmediale Open Web Booksprint". ARTE Creative. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  7. ^ "Capturing the Commons: (Ways Forward for) The CC Case Studies Initiative" (PDF). Thorne, Michelle and Cobcroft, Rachel. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  8. ^ "Zwischen Markt und Gemeingut. Forschung über Freie Kultur". OE1 ORF. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  9. ^ "Designing for Collaborative Consumption". republica2010. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  10. ^ "TEDxKreuzberg". TED. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  11. ^ "Designing for Collaborative Consumption". WIRED. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  12. ^ "Gabriel Shalom, retour vers les futurs". Vogue Paris. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  13. ^ "kuechenradio.org podcast: Admiralbrücke at 24:35 min". kuechenradio.org. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  14. ^ "Thornet: HOWTO: make a nutellachino". Michelle Thorne. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  15. ^ "kuechenradio.org podcast: KR_178 - Bruno Cathomas (Live) at ca 16:30min". kuechenradio.org. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  16. ^ "Thornet:aber hallo, welt". Michelle Thorne. Retrieved 2008-04-29.

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