Science and Technology Production
Book
Authorship
ZUKERFELD, MARIANO
;
Arwid Lund
Date
2020
Publishing House and Editing Place
Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature)
ISBN
978-3-030-28218-9
Summary
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The hype around openness in our increasingly digitally mediated society has informed discussions of the social web 2.0, open government, the collaborative prosumer or peer producer, and a new ?wikinomics? built on network effects. However, the fact that capitalist corporations are profiting from unpaid labour, knowledge and affect, tends to be overlooked. Conflicts are downplayed in favour of synergies between public and private actors, producers and platform owners, and commons-based projects ...
The hype around openness in our increasingly digitally mediated society has informed discussions of the social web 2.0, open government, the collaborative prosumer or peer producer, and a new ?wikinomics? built on network effects. However, the fact that capitalist corporations are profiting from unpaid labour, knowledge and affect, tends to be overlooked. Conflicts are downplayed in favour of synergies between public and private actors, producers and platform owners, and commons-based projects and companies built on wage labour. All this profit for free is said to be the new oil of the information age. This book identifies the ideological uses of openness, explains the workings of open business models that are not always so open, and brings the self-perception of the producers into the equation to help explain existing conflicts as well as the lack of them. The study proceeds through seven case studies that scrutinize free and open software, open platforms and data (social networking platforms), open content platforms like YouTube, Open Access publishing, open university courses, citizen journalism, and open government/data and commercial sevices. These otherwise disparate cases share some fundamental features: capitalist corporations base their business models on unpaid labour, knowledge and affects provided for free in the form of informational goods through the internet, and do so crucially by resorting to ideological uses of concepts such as ?openness?, ?communities? and ?sharing?. Some public policies that could lay bare the ideological camera obscura versions of openness will be suggested.
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Key Words
CommonsCapitalismOpennessFree