Arwid Lund, Mariano Zukerfeld

Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the concept of openness (as in open source software, open access and free culture), from a critical political economy perspective to consider its encroachment by capitalist corporations, but also how it advances radical alternatives to cognitive capitalism.

Drawing on four case studies, Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness will add to discussion on open source software, open access content platforms, open access publishing, and open university courses. These otherwise disparate cases share two fundamental features: informational capitalist corporations base their successful business models on unpaid productive activities, play, attention, knowledge and labour, and do so crucially by resorting to ideological uses of concepts such as "openness", "communities" and "sharing".

The authors present potential solutions and alternative regulations to counter these exploitative and alienating business models, and to foster digital knowledge commons, ranging from co-ops and commons-based peer production to state agencies' platforms. Their research and findings will appeal to students, academics and activists around the world in fields such as sociology, economy, media and communication, library and information science, political sciences and technology studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030282196
• Artikelnr.: 58751259

Autorenporträt

Arwid Lund is Assistant Professor in Library and Information Science at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Mariano Zukerfeld is Associate Professor at Buenos Aires University, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Council of Argentina (CONICET) and Head of Technology, Capitalism and Society team (e-TCS) at the Science, Technology and Society Centre, Maimónides University, Argentina.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Profit from Openness: A Critique of a New Business Model.- 3. Profiting from Free and Open Source Software.- 4.Profiting from Open Access Publishing.- 5. Profiting from Open Audiovisual Content.- 6. Profiting from Massive Open Online Courses. - 7. Conclusions and Policies.