Counter-commodification: The economy of contribution in the digital commons

Wittel, Andreas

doi:10.1080/14759551.2013.827422

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“…More research is needed in many areas, including identifying the nature of shared ownership in contemporary contexts in and outside the marketplace as well as in the digital and face-to-face domains. In the digital world, a shared and communal sense of ownership is experienced toward digital materiality (Nasioulasa and Nikolaus 2011;Shaffer 2011;Wittel 2013). This raises questions regarding whether the distribution and consumption practices surrounding digital materiality constitute sharing (Belk 2014) or community gift giving (Giesler 2006).…”

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The Relationship between Access Practices and Economic Systems

Eckhardt¹,

Bardhi²

2016

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

101

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This is the published version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. ABSTRACT The access economy is rising in importance in the marketplace. In this conceptual article, we chronicle access practices in market and nonmarket economies. In nonmarket economic systems, access is gained via social exchange and primarily takes the form of sharing. That is, sharing is non-market-mediated access. In the contemporary market economy, economic exchange practices, such as renting, dominate access practices, explaining why the so-called sharing economy is not about sharing. Further, we propose that culture and social class moderate this relationship by creating contexts where social exchange (e.g., sharing) can provide access to resources in market economies. We demonstrate that access and sharing should not be essentialized, as their nature is dependent on the social system in which they are embedded. Thus, future research can focus on parsing out the nuances of how, when, and why access practices are utilized in particular societies and communities. Permanent

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The Relationship between Access Practices and Economic Systems

Eckhardt¹,

Bardhi²

2016

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research

101

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“…It is also straightforward to see commoning in the digital commons. Sites and platforms of digital commoning need to be built and maintained by commoners, often collaboratively, often with voluntary and non-wage-based labour (Wittel, 2013). Many sites and platforms are therefore precarious.…”

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“…He shares the tendency of Hardin and Ostrom to ignore the tight-woven web of commons and capitalist economies. There is little acknowledgement of the crucial role of wage-labour or corporate funding in his analysis of common-based peer production (Wittel, 2013).…”

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The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations

Korczynski

Wittel

2020

Sociology

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One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the workplace should be included as a potentially important arena of commoning. Going to studies of the workplace, we find that scholarship has implicitly found key emergent elements of commoning within the social relations of work. We develop a concept of the workplace commons, and consider arguments that the workplace commons is merely a fix for capitalism.

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“…Surely this is a consequence of Ostrom's work, but it has also a lot do to do with the astonishing rise of the digital commons (Wittel 2013). The digital commons refers to "results of social production that are necessary for social interaction and further production, such as knowledges, languages, codes, information, affects, and so forth" (Hardt and Negri 2009, xiii).…”

Section: Higher Education As a Commons?mentioning

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Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons

Wittel

2018

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This paper takes as a starting point Lewis Hyde's (2007, xvi) assertion that art is a gift and not a commodity: "Works of art exist simultaneously in two 'economies', a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can survive without a market, but where there is no gift there is no art." I want to argue that the same claim should be made for those aspects of academic labour that refer to teaching and education. Education can survive without a market, but where there is no gift there is no education. However the gift that is part of all educational processes gets rather obscured in regimes where higher education is either a public good or a private good. In regimes of higher education as public good the gift gets obscured by the provision of a service by the state. In regimes of higher education as a private good (e.g. higher education in the UK) the gift gets even more obscured, obviously so. It is only in a third educational regime, where education is a common good (e.g. the recent rise of the free universities), that the gift character of education can properly shine. Whilst this should be celebrated, the notion of a higher education commons poses some severe challenges. The paper ends with an examination of possibilities of academic activists to rescue or even strengthen the gift-like character of education.

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Counter-commodification: The economy of contribution in the digital commons

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

The Relationship between Access Practices and Economic Systems

The Relationship between Access Practices and Economic Systems

The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations

Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons

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