Juliet Schor on P2P Learning and Connected Consumption

Video webinar via http://connectedlearning.tv/juliet-schor-connected-learning-and-consumption-new-sharing-economy

Description

Why are we increasingly embracing a consumption model that values re-circulation of goods over private ownership? How is peer-to-peer technology helping enable this shift?

About This Speaker

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is also a member of the Connected Learning Research Network. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. Juliet is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles and the economy and the emergence of a conscious consumption movement.