Class and capital in peer production

Bauwens, Michel

doi:10.1177/030981680909700107

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“…Similarly, co-ops offer a way to re-appropriate means of production (Novkovic, 2008). Both have the desire to escape from the alienation of market incentives and corporate hierarchies (Bauwens, 2008).…”

Section: Similarities Between Open Source Communities and Health Coopmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare service innovation based on information technology : The role of social values alignment

Marsan¹,

Audebrand²,

Croteau³

et al. 2017

Systèmes d'Information &Amp; Management

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Le dossier de santé personnel informatisé (DSPI) est une technologie de l’information (TI) conçue pour l’autonomisation des patients en matière d’autogestion de la santé. Toutefois, son déploiement réel reste moindre que prévu en raison de deux barrières principales que doivent adresser les fournisseurs de DSPI : manque de confiance envers le fournisseur dans la confidentialité des données et manque de flexibilité de l’outil. Pour outrepasser ces barrières, nous envisageons la possibilité que les DSPI soient offerts par les coopératives de santé en collaboration avec la communauté de développement open source partageant des valeurs similaires. En mobilisant le concept d’alignement social qui met l’accent sur les valeurs, nous explorons d’abord la possibilité d’alignements sociaux entre les valeurs sous-jacentes à la mission des coopératives de santé et celles sous-jacentes à la finalité des DSPI, et entre les valeurs fondamentales des coopératives de santé et celles des communautés de développement open source. Nous explorons aussi l’effet de ces alignements potentiels sur l’intérêt des coopératives de santé à innover avec un service de santé basé sur le DSPI. Pour atteindre nos objectifs de recherche 17 entrevues ont été menées dans des coopératives de santé au Québec, une province du Canada où le réseau des coopératives de santé est particulièrement actif. Nos résultats montrent que le concept d’alignement des valeurs sociales est utile dans le contexte de l’innovation de service basé sur un DSPI dans les coopératives de santé. Toutefois, notre analyse des données montre que l’alignement des valeurs sociales ne suffit pas pour qu’une telle innovation se produise. En effet, nos résultats nous ont conduits vers le concept de prédisposition organisationnelle afin de mieux comprendre ce qui est nécessaire pour augmenter la probabilité que l’innovation de service basé sur un DSPI se produise au sein des coopératives de santé. Cette étude se termine par l’amorce d’un développement théorique où nous bâtissons sur nos résultats et sur la littérature pour proposer un modèle conceptuel de l’innovation de service basé sur les TI dans les organisations de soins de santé.

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Section: Similarities Between Open Source Communities and Health Coopmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthcare service innovation based on information technology : The role of social values alignment

Marsan¹,

Audebrand²,

Croteau³

et al. 2017

Systèmes d'Information &Amp; Management

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“…Peer production appears as islands within capitalist social formation, and its generalisation will require a social revolution (Rigi 2013, 4). But before that, the mode of production does not exclude commercial activities from attaching themselves to (mostly) the margins of the projects in the form of services and material products derived from them (Gye 2007a;Bauwens 2009). While these lines of reasoning are somewhat vulnerable to the aforementioned "ideology of digitalism" (Pasquinelli 2008, 72-90), they also reveal pathways for a real emancipatory potential.…”

Section: Rematerializing the P2p Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

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Roos¹,

Kostakis²,

Giotitsas³

2016

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Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth's biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the rise of new and progressive social-economic foundations is the result of an unprecedented increase of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Therefore it is arguably more crucial than ever to understand how social, economic and ecological foundations of the internet and ICT infrastructures are interwoven. What are we-as scholars, activists and citizens-to make of ICTs that seem to emerge from an economic and social system based upon ecological destruction and social oppression, while at the same time engaging millions of people in the proliferation of information, knowledge and active democratic collaboration? This special issue investigates how we can begin to understand this problem, and how we can hope to balance the perils and promises of ICTs in order to make way for a just and sustainable paradigm.Keywords: Commons based peer production, peer-to-peer, political ecology, ICTs, materiality, immateriality, transition, sustainability, digital commons.Recent studies by Christian Fuchs have examined the complex web of production relations and the new division of digital labour that makes possible the vast and cheap ICT infrastructure as we know it (Fuchs 2013;. The analysis partly reveals that ICT products and infrastructure embody slave-like conditions that perpetually force mine and assembly workers into positions of dependency. Expanding this argument, the WWF has reported (Reed and Miranda 2007) that mining in the Congo basin poses considerable threats to the local environment in the form of pollution, loss of biodiversity, and an increased presence of businessas-usual made possible by roads and railways. This research highlights that ICTs are inherently material, as opposed to purely cognitive or code based, because the ICT infrastructure under the given economic structure embodies slave-like working conditions, various class relations and undesirable ecological consequences (see also Humphrey 2001). Thus, the position that views the emerging digital economy as purely immaterial is challenged.At the same time, the emerging digital commons provide a new and promising platform for social developments, arguably enabled by the progressive dynamics of ICT development. These are predominantly manifested within commons-based peer production, i.e., a new mode of collaborative, social production ; and grassroots desktop manufacturing or community-driven makerspaces, i.e. forms of bottom-up, distributed manufacturing. The most well-known examples of commons-based peer production are the free/open source software projects and the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. While these novel forms of social organisation are immanent in capitalism, they also present the potential to challenge the dominant capitalist system of production and ev...

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“…As some writers have argued, the experience of contributing to Wikipedia-or, in a more specialized sense, to an open-source software project-can in fact be transformative. It is a powerful demonstration of how crucial resources can be built and shared absent profit motives, managerial control, or private property arrangements (Bauwens 2009;Rigi 2013).…”

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“…Yelp reviews). The same is true of the production of news and commentary (via communities of bloggers) and the production of cultural archives, including, for instance, amateur photographers who collectively create vast image collections (Bauwens 2009;Shirky 2008). Even social protests can be viewed as "peer produced' by a distributed network of differentially engaged users (Bennett, Segerberg, and Walker 2014).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Property Outlaws in Cyberspace and Meatspace? Examining the Relationship between Online Peer Production and Support for Private Property Violations

Gibson

2014

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Marxian theory has long viewed the institution of private property as central to labour exploitation. After all, private property laws allow those who control the means of production to expropriate surplus value from the dispossessed. An analogous relationship arguably defines life on the Internet, where users are forced to venture onto privately owned digital enclosures to access key services. Yet these online property relationships are anything but settled and uncontested. Outside the digital enclosures of Apple and Google, the Internet has fostered the development of "commons-based peer production", where key resources (e.g. software) are produced without anyone claiming exclusive property rights. In fact, some scholars have argued that the rise of peer production on the web has begun to re-shape popular attitudes concerning the legitimacy of property exclusions more broadly. In short, as we become "property outlaws" on the web, we come to question the inevitability and legitimacy of private property elsewhere in life. This paper explores this hypothesis by reporting data from a survey of Internet users at an East Coast university. Are users who engage in more peer production activities on the web also more likely to approve of "property outlaw" behaviours not just in the online context, but in the offline world as well (e.g. squatting)? The data provide only partial support for the hypothesis: active online peer producers were indeed more likely to support violations of intangible (intellectual) properties, but not violations of tangible or "real-world" properties.

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Class and capital in peer production

Cited by 93 publications

References 6 publications

Healthcare service innovation based on information technology : The role of social values alignment

Healthcare service innovation based on information technology : The role of social values alignment

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Property Outlaws in Cyberspace and Meatspace? Examining the Relationship between Online Peer Production and Support for Private Property Violations

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