Looking back at my 2016: publications and media

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            Here is a reasonably complete collection of things written by me, interviews of me, book reviews about my book, and articles to which I contributed through interviews or quotes or data sets for the year 2016. It's been a busy year, and rewarding in many ways.

Book

My second book What’s Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy was published by OR Books in November 2015, but I am including the book and related articles here, making it a “long 2016”.

• US and UK edition (link), OR Books, November 2015

• Canadian edition (link), Between the Lines Press, February 2016

• German edition (Deins ist Meins): Verlag Antje Kunstmann

• Spanish edition: Lo tuyo es mío, Taurus, November 2016

• Simplified Chinese edition: (Ginkgo Book Co.)

• French language edition (France and Québec): Ce Qui est à Toi est à Moi, translated by Hélène Rioux, Lux Editeur

Book chapter

• “Trust and Platform Cooperatives” in Ours to Hack and to Own, edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Scheider.

Invited Essays

• The Sharing Economy’s Dirty Laundry, Jacobin, March 2016

• The Sharing Economy isn’t about sharing, Alternet, March 27, 2016 (excerpt)

• What’s Yours is Mine, AFR Weekend, Australian Financial Review, May 28, 2016 (excerpt)

• Airbnb is Facing an Existential Expansion Problem, Harvard Business Review digital article, July 11, 2016

• The downsides of sharing, Monocle (rejected)

Reviews of “What’s Yours is Mine”

• What’s Yours is Mine, Håkan Lindgren, Svenska DagBladet, Jan 11, 2016.

• The broken promise of the sharing economy, Ralf Grötker, Netopia, Feb 3, 2016

• Raw Deals, Ben Terrall, Counterpunch, Feb 12, 2016.

• What’s Yours is Mine, Saul of Hearts, Medium, Feb 25, 2016

• L’atto d’accusa contro la sharing economy, Fabio Chiusi, L’Espresso, 09 March 2016 (Italian)

• The Unforeseen Dangers of Uber and Airbnb, Robert E. Levine, The Spectator (UK), March 5, 2016

• Ist Carsharing das neue Lohndumping? (German), Welt, Oliver Rasche, April 2016.

• Book of the Day, Steven Poole, The Guardian, April 2, 2016.

• Tom Slee’s What’s Yours is Mine, Cathy O’Neil, April 20, 2016

• Die Sharing Economy - nur eine illusion?, Birgit Stratmann, Netzwerk Ethikheute,  (German)

• Sheared, Rohinton Medhora, Literary Review of Canada, May 2016

• Book slams Uber, Airbnb, and Sharing Economy, Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star, May 1, 2016

• What’s Yours is Mine, Peter Richardson, Truthdig, May 2, 2016.

• Teile und herrsche, Thomas Wagner, junge Welt, May 10, 2016

• What’s Yours is Mine, Liz Pelly, Maximum Rocknroll, June 2016

• What’s Yours is Mine, Howard Doughty, The Innovation Journal, 21 (1) 2016

• What’s Yours is Mine, Ruth Latta, The Compulsive Reader, March 25, 2016

• Le duel des critiques, BFM Business, (French, video).

Interviews

• What do we do about a problem like Uber, Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 15 Jan 2016

• Inside the sharing economy, Per Strömbäck, Netopia, 3 Feb 2016

• Every person a market, Chuck Mertz, This is Hell, 23 Feb 2016 (audio),

• The Sharing Economy is Not Your Friend, Drew Millard, Vice, Feb 2016.

• Sharing is not always caring, James Jackson, Waterloo Chronicle, 09 Mar 2016

• Geldwertes Teilen, DeutschlandRadio Kultur, 12 March 2016 (German)

• The technology is just a shiny shopfront, Barbara Speed, The New Statesman, 21 March 2016.

• “Diese Jobs schaffen ein neues Prekariat”, Nils Klawitter, Spiegel Online, 23 March 2016 (German)

• Teile und herrsche, Barbara Hofler, NZZ Am Sontag, 16 April 2016 (German, Switzerland)

• What’s Yours is Mine, Redeye Collective, Vancouver (audio), 29 April 2016

• Sharing the wealth, unevenly, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario, 4 May 2016

• Uber og Airbnb underminerer demokratiet, Assia Awad, djoefbladet, 26 May 2016 (Danish)

• Sharing economy platforms exist for one purpose only, which is to make money for their investors, Felix Simon, Medium, 6 June 2016

• 10 Questions on the sharing economy, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario, 14 June 2016

• Can’t find a home in Seattle? Airbnb rentals may be to blame, Gene Balk, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2016 (Seattle)

• Short-term rentals are reshaping real estate market in some cities, Tony Gonzalez, Marketplace, 20 Sept 2016

• The Sharing Economy Blues, David Hugill, Canadian Dimension, 23 September 2016

• Die Sharing Economie ist eine Blase, (German), Marc Kowalsky, Bilanz, November 2016.

• UK Tribunal Rules in Favour of Uber Drivers (audio), Redeye Collective, Vancouver, 22 Nov 2016

• The so-called sharing economy, Richard Aedy, The Money, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, December 2016, (audio)

Quoted, and Airbnb data

• Nobody’s Business: CCPA report on short-term rentals in Toronto, 22 September 2016

  • Airbnb cutting into available rentals in Toronto, study shows, Metro News, 22 Sep 2016

  • Airbnb cutting into available rentals in city, Tess Kalinowski, Toronto Star, 22 Sep 2016

  • Airbnb Is Sapping Toronto Of Rental Housing: Report, Jesse Ferreras, Huffington Post, 22 Sep 2016

  • (and others)

• Airbnb has made it nearly impossible to find a place to live in this city, Kristen V. Brown, Fusion, May 24. (Reykjavik)

• How do we research the sharing economy when the data can’t be validated?, Andrew Gelman, Monkey Cage Blog (Washington Post), June 6, 2016.

• Cities take aim at Airbnb, Sunny Dhillon, Globe and Mail, 11 July 2016

• Airbnb in Vancouver and its impact on affordable housing, Iain Marjoribanks, 1 June 2016,

• Airbnb open to market regulations in large cities like Vancouver, Mike Hager, Globe and Mail, 25 July 2016 (Vancouver)

• Iceland tourism and the mixed blessings of Airbnb, Andrew Scheivachman, Skift, 19 Aug 2016

• Small towns can’t handle the sharing economy tourism boom, Kristen V. Brown, Fusion, 28 August 2016.

• Airbnb et Uber, Nicholas Tittley, Radio Canada, September 2016. (audio)

• Lancé à Bordeaux, l’observatoire Airbnb veut créer un débat national, Xavier Ridon, Rue89 Bordeaux, 25 Oct 2016 (Bordeaux)

• New York deflates Airbnb, The Economist, 29 Oct 2016.

• The 14 th Global Forum on Tourism Statistics, 23-25 Nov 2016

• Consumo collaborativo: dall’anticapitalismo al rilancio del mercato, Carlo Lottiere, il Giornale, 7 Dec 2016 (Italian)

Report: How Airbnb hid the facts in New York City

Together with Murray Cox of Inside Airbnb,  I produced a report on Airbnb’s removal of 1500 listings in New York, just in time to make its public release of data look good.

• The report: my site, and Inside Airbnb

• List of media reports, including New York Times, The Guardian, and NBC.

• Airbnb admits it purged listings: Fusion,

Events

• Octopus Books (Ottawa)

• Last but not Least Feast, Words Worth Books and The New Quarterly (Kitchener-Waterloo)

• Word on the Street (Toronto)

• The City Seminar: The Ghost Economy, York University, November 4, 2016.