Open Source Projects as Incubators of Innovation: From Niche Phenomenon to Integral Part of the Software Industry

Schrape, Jan-Felix

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“…Here, we draw from the strands made in the scholarship on digital activism (Benkler 2006; Bennett 2004; Brevini et al 2013; Castells 2000; Chadwick 2006; Dahlberg and Siapera 2007; Diani and McAdam 2003; Gerbaudo 2014; Karatzogianni 2006, 2015; McCaughey and Ayers 2003; Milan 2013; Rheingold 1994; Taylor and Jordan 2004; Trottier and Fuchs 2014; Van de Donk et al 2004). Particularly for our analyses, we are taking into account recent contributions made by Dolata (2017), Schrape (2017), and Dolata and Schrape (2016, 9), and their concept of advanced technical sociality:the institutionalization of the collective can today no longer be represented as a purely social but only as a socio-technical process, understood as the systematic interweaving of social and technical organization and structuring services the interplay of which, however, varies greatly from case to case.…”

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Platform Ideologies: Ideological Production in Digital Intermediation Platforms and Structural Effectivity in the “Sharing Economy”

Karatzogianni

Matthews

2018

Television & New Media

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Drawing from three sets of literature (critical economy of platformization, labor organization, and digital activism), this article introduces an integrated framework to analyze ideological production in digital intermediation platforms, particularly in relation to the sharing economy. We analyze documents, fieldwork interviews from twenty-eight actors, and observation of events in Barcelona, Paris, and Berlin during 2015–2017. We find that there are three dominant ideological strands: “sharing economy,” “commons,” and “platform cooperativism,” within a spectrum that ranges from legitimizing neoliberalism and/or reasserting a reformist, more humane capitalism to more radical visions: cooperative society to commons-oriented production, and resisting privatization, through the recapturing of public space as commons. The actors we interviewed can be seen as part of an intermediate class, dependent on platforms for their survival, and who end up involuntary promoters of their own alienation and exploitation, consolidating the deterioration of the very digital labor conditions they seek to transform.

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Platform Ideologies: Ideological Production in Digital Intermediation Platforms and Structural Effectivity in the “Sharing Economy”

Karatzogianni

Matthews

2018

Television & New Media

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Technology and the Promise of Decentralization. Origins, Development, Patterns of Arguments

Schrape

2019

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Digitalization has long been associated with the promise of a technology-enabled decentralization of social conditions. Although such expectations have regularly fallen short, their underlying generic vision has proven to be astonishingly stable. This paper strives to trace the origin of the notion of decentralizing socioeconomic forms of coordination through technological means-from the do-it-yourself scene of the late 1960s, the computer counterculture of the 1970s and the 1980s, and the debates on cyberspace and Web 2.0 in the 1990s and 2000s to present day ideas of decentralized and distributed forms of production and economic systems. An elaboration of the basic patterns of arguments behind technology-based promises of decentralization and their communicative functions then follows. Zusammenfassung Mit der Digitalisierung geht seit jeher das Versprechen einer technikinduzierten Dezentralisierung gesellschaftlicher Verhältnisse einher. Obgleich die daran geknüpften konkreten Erwartungen bislang von den empirischen Entwicklungen regelmäßig enttäuscht worden sind, erweist sich das dahinterliegende allgemeine Zukunftsbild als erstaunlich stabil. Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgt dieses Papier zum ersten das Ziel, die Entstehungsgeschichte der Vorstellung einer Dezentralisierung sozioökonomischer Koordinationsweisen durch technische Strukturen zu rekonstruieren-von der Do-it-yourself-Szene der späten 1960er-Jahre über die Computer-Gegenkultur der 1970er-und 1980er-Jahre, die Diskussionen um das Web (2.0) in den 1990er-und 2000er-Jahren bis hin zu gegenwärtigen Ideen distribuierter Wirtschaftsweisen. Daran anknüpfend werden zum zweiten die argumentativen Grundmuster und kommunikativen Funktionen technikorientierter Dezentralisierungsthesen herausgearbeitet.

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Open Source Projects as Incubators of Innovation: From Niche Phenomenon to Integral Part of the Software Industry

Cited by 2 publications

References 102 publications

Platform Ideologies: Ideological Production in Digital Intermediation Platforms and Structural Effectivity in the “Sharing Economy”

Platform Ideologies: Ideological Production in Digital Intermediation Platforms and Structural Effectivity in the “Sharing Economy”

Technology and the Promise of Decentralization. Origins, Development, Patterns of Arguments

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