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Franz Narada on the three modes of peer production

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Michel Bauwens
21st May 2006


Franz Narada, the tireless promotor of the concept and practice of Global Villages, recently gave a remarkable speech that can serve as a good introduction to peer production. Particularly illuminating are his distintions regarding three phases in the development of peer production, based on the intensity of the collaboration between peers, and its relation with the for-profit mode of production.”’

1. The classical “prosumer mode”, in which everybody is working
basically for themselves in using and customizing productive abilities created or
reinforced by industrial products that enable people do use “embodied
potentials” of information and automation. Alvin Toffler has discovered
that in the eighties, but only Shosanna Zuboff recently formulated that
this will result in a “copernican shift” where the value-creation in
the classical sense is replaced by the support economy.

2. The “swarm mode in which people are loosely aggregated in doing
things, either for themselves (ebay,musicsharing) or for an external
task that uses the “least effort” way (Seti@home and successors)

3. The “community mode”, in which the team up in new forms of voluntary
social organisation. (classical example Free Software).

The interesting thing is that this three modes are pretty separated,
but there is a “hidden continuum” structurally connecting them, they become
“mutual enablers”.

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2 Responses to “Franz Narada on the three modes of peer production”

  1. ((( rebell.tv ))) blog - martin bredl behauptet, er hätte es erfunden... eieiei... Says:

    [...] 23:20Matthias: Dazu passend die Jubelmeldung aus … 04.7.2007 martin bredl behauptet, er hätte es erfunden… eieiei… Kategorie: ökonomWie? | | von sms um 02:00spannender: heute abend in dornbirn. die telekomaustria ermöglicht in wien und hintermarlberg eine lab.netculture.at. tönt ziemlich spannend. schaut suprGenial aus. dort hat heute *mein* herr feuerstein mit seiner musigreview.com homepage-taufe… da wollten wir natürlich nicht fehlen… roland alton-scheidl machte noch eine kurze vorstellung des labs und hat uns dann kurzerhand mit dem “leiter der unternehmenskommunikation von telekom austria” verbunden. der mann behauptet, er hätte es erfunden… (nein: nicht ricola) das .copy – jenes trendige magazin, in welchem uns matthias dusini frecherweise “kraut- und rübenprogramm” genannt hat. d!a!n!k!e! und jetzt wurden wir zusätzlich noch (war das WIRKLICH franz nahrada? – wow… eieiei… also… ähm…) als “witzigstes vlog im deutschsprachigen raum” vorgestellt… himmel… “ob ich witzig sein wolle”, fragt martin bredl. wenn der mann wüsste… eieiei… über all das müssen wir dann reden, wenn wir ihn in unserem ü-wagen an der ars electronica treffen werden… hier gehts zur begegnung mit martin: KommentareBis jetzt keine Kommentare zu diesem BeitragKommentar verfassenNameE-Mail (wird nicht veröffentlicht)UrlIhr KommentarAnti-Spam Überprüfung (Code ins Eingabefeld übertragen) [...]

  2. Franz Nahrada Says:

    @Michel: seems thats also a sticky spelling difficulty

    @Stefan M. S from rebell.tv: the link you wanted to post is here: blog.rebell.tv/oekonomie/martin-bredl-behauptet-er-haette-es-erfunden-eieiei.html

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