Image of Incorporating the Digital Commons

Text

Incorporating the Digital Commons

The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software, and IBM, Intel, Cisco, Samsung, Google are some of the largest contributors to Linux, the open-source operating system. This book explores the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism. Just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians, and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. The book concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle, and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors.

Ketersediaan

Tidak ada salinan data

Informasi Detail
Judul Seri
-
No. Panggil
-
Penerbit
London : University of Westminster Press.,
Deskripsi Fisik
ebook
Bahasa
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781912656424
Klasifikasi
NONE
Tipe Isi
-
Tipe Media
-
Tipe Pembawa
-
Edisi
-
Subjek
History of specific companies
Political economy
Media studies
Communication studies
Media, information
communication industries
corporate history
Sociology: work
labour
Info Detail Spesifik
-
Pernyataan Tanggungjawab
Versi lain/terkait

Tidak tersedia versi lain

Lampiran Berkas
Komentar
Anda harus masuk sebelum memberikan komentar