Kris has been active in the web3 arena for nearly a decade, and has written and appeared in various forms of content. A selection of content is linked and embedded below.
Publications and Citations
Publications:
Medium Profile and Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain Publication.
Jones, Kristopher. 2019. “Blockchain in or as Governance? Evolutions in Experimentation, Social Impacts, and Prefigurative Practice in the Blockchain Space” Information Polity – Blockchain Special Edition – Blockchain and the Public Sector: Expected Impacts, Benefits, Challenges, Policies, and Regulatory Issues.
Jones, Kristopher. 2018. “Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain” M.A. Research Thesis, QSPACE.
Masters Thesis Published through Queen’s University Department of Sociology.
Supervised by Dr. David Murakami-Wood, Second Reader Dr. David Lyon.
Taking the Pulse of Saskatchewan - University of Saskatchewan SSRL and CB Saskatchewan
McDowell, M., Jones, K., Keatings, T., Brooks, C., Cheng, H., Olver, M., Wormith, S. 2012. “Crime and Public Safety in Saskatchewan.” Social Sciences Research Laboratories, University of Saskatchewan.
Keatings, T., Jones, K., Gilchrist, D., Huq, M., Walker, R. 2012. “Saskatchewan’s Economy.” Social Sciences Research Laboratories, University of Saskatchewan.
Quoted or Referenced in:
Feedback provided for Schneider, N., De Filippi, P., Frey, S., Tan, J.Z. and Zhang, A.X., 2021. “Modular politics: Toward a governance layer for online communities”. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1), pp.1-26.
Commons Stack referenced within Emmi Bevensee. 2021. “No Ethical Activism Under Capitalism: DAOs, DeFi, and Purity Politics.” Center for a Stateless Society.
Thesis linked in Evgeny Morozov’s Crypto Syllabus under Sociological Context
Quoted in El-Masri, Mohamed. 2020. "Oil, Natural Gas, and Blockchain." (2020). Blockchain Research Institute.
Interviews and Content
Blockchain Socialist Podcast - We Need More Sociologists in the Blockchain Space!
MetaGame Presentation - Crypto/Social
ETHDenver 2022 - Year of the DAO Panel Moderator
QBIC Panel Series -
Governments and Society Panelist
Hackathon Projects
‘Buidls’
Presentations
Tally Ho and why community is a web3 superpower
ETHVancouver 2022
Monetary Maximalism and Millennial Finance
DefCon28 Blockchain Village Presentation
Blockchain and Zu
Zu Digital Agency Lunch and Learn
Blockchain and Real Estate
Regina Real Estate Association
Interconnection Conference
Queen's Department of Sociology, April 2018
Presented my paper Putting Theory to Work: Policy Implications of Multiplicity
Blockchain and Securities Roundtable Discussion
Conference Board of Canada, March 2018
Round-table discussion on blockchain and security for the Conference Board of Canada. Included a variety of participants from Government and Defense to Academia and Tech Startups.
Blockchain, Politics and Societies
Kingston Blockchainers, Kingston, April 2018
Interconnection Conference
Queen's Department of Sociology, April 2017
Presented my paper Bitcoin Use as Privacy Protests and Surveillance Resistance