Knowledge-based society, peer production and the common good

Orsi, Cosma

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“…According to Fricker [15], to re-establish meaning we have to re-establish meaningful connection -to each other, other species, and the world at large. Peer-to-peer work of communities may help in achieving this Bunity^, because it implies that the separation of different life spheres ceases [26,32].…”

Section: Discussion -The Role Of Politics and Policy-making Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Peer-to-peer is an encouraging model for a post-work or post-capitalistic society, as it does not necessarily require markets and monetary transactions to work properly. Peer-to-peer production can be defined as a distributed network of free participation of equal partners [32]. Participants are engaged in the production of common resources without monetary compensation as the keymotivating factor.…”

Section: Introduction -Near-zero Marginal Costs and Neo-carbon Scenarmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants are engaged in the production of common resources without monetary compensation as the keymotivating factor. Peer-to-peer production creates Commons (shared, free resources), which rely on social relations rather than pricing mechanisms or managerial commands to allocate resources [32].…”

Section: Introduction -Near-zero Marginal Costs and Neo-carbon Scenarmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Peer-to-peer work in the digital meaning society 2050

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The article discusses possible futures of selforganising peer-to-peer work through four transformative scenarios constructed in the Neo-Carbon Energy research project. These futures images probe the futures of work from the perspective of peer-to-peer organisations and distributed renewable energy production. The scenarios lay a systemic view on the development of societies, studying how decentralised renewable energy with low costs could affect society and its social relations. We anticipate the emergence of a digital meaning society, in which the economy is based on the production of meanings and meaningfulness. The article analyses the results of a futures workshop on the futures of work by classifying them to seven core themes. The results of the analysis are compared to related implications for policy-making, and to the Millennium Project Work/Technology Scenarios 2050 for international perspectives. The article presents possible disruptions and key emerging issues, including the novel drivers for inequalities of peer-to-peer work.

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Section: Introduction -Near-zero Marginal Costs and Neo-carbon Scenarmentioning

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Section: Introduction -Near-zero Marginal Costs and Neo-carbon Scenarmentioning

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“…Depending on the various forms of licenses that exist (e.g., Creative commons, GNU public licenses -see Lessig, 2001Lessig, , 2004 individuals are free to use and develop the software within their employment, but are often required to share any developments or improvements to the programming languages with the community when the software is distributed publically. FLOSS development has been argued to operate like a 'gift economy' parallel to the 'real' economy (Orsi, 2009). While likened to a gift economy, the established sociological literature on gifts places an emphasis on reciprocation.…”

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Confusion and collectivism in the ICT sector: Is FLOSS the answer?

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Chillas

Galloway

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Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) workers rarely join trade unions. This is usually explained by the individualised nature of work. We examine broader forms of collectivism for these workers, drawing on survey and interview data. Our focus is on social class, attitudes towards unions and professional bodies and participation in the broader ICT community -specifically Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The findings reveal absence of formal collective frames of reference or organisation, yet the creativity, autonomy and initiative, central to the identity of ICT workers, may offer opportunities for collectivisation particularly when we look at participation in FLOSS communities.

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“…Whether digital capitalism is fundamentally challenged by, or seamlessly able to absorb, new forms of peer production is a matter of current debate (Orsi, 2009;Schiller, 2011). Coming down on the side of challenging capitalist norms, Bauwens (2012) argues that a process of prefiguration is happening:…”

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Reveley

2015

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Our article relocates the debate about creative labour to the terrain of peer-to-peer interneting as the paradigmatic form of nonmarket -social -production. From Yann Moulier Boutang we take the point that creative labour is immaterial; it is expressed through people connected by the internet. Drawing on two social systems thinkers, Francis Heylighen and Wolfgang Hofkirchner, we transpose this connectedness up to a conception of creative labour as a supra-individual collective intelligence. This intelligence, we argue, is one of the internet's emergent properties. We then present a model of internet development that flags the potential of digitally-evoked collective intelligence to facilitate what the Marxist philosopher George Caffentzis calls 'postcapitalist commoning'. Yoking together systems theorizing about the internet and socialist envisioning of social transformation, we identify two sets of internet tools for coordination that can assist with the convivial reconstruction of society along the lines of peer-based production.

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Knowledge-based society, peer production and the common good

Cited by 41 publications

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Peer-to-peer work in the digital meaning society 2050

Peer-to-peer work in the digital meaning society 2050

Confusion and collectivism in the ICT sector: Is FLOSS the answer?

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