Superb article from our friend Vasilis Kostakis, published in First Monday: Article: Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s peer governance: The case of inclusionists versus deletionists. by Vasilis Kostakis. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 3 – 1 March 2010 Abstract “Wikipedia has been hailed as one of the most prominent peer projects that led… Continue reading
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Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Hartzog; discussion with Bauwens, Cedric & Hartzog)
This last post concerning the interview part includes Paul Hartzog ‘s philosophical position followed by an intriguing “discussion” amongst Bauwens, Hartzog and Cedric (read the previous interviews here and here). Interview with Hartzog Question: How does governance without government come possible? In your work (2005, 2008) you firstly define what governance and government imply (“government… Continue reading
Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Cedric and Barry Kort)
In the vein of the previous post, here two interviews are introduced. Cedric is an active member of Wikipedia Review and has written a lot of critical material on Wikipedia (The Six Rotten Pillars of Wikipedia ) published in sites such as Wikipedia Review and others. The second interviewee, Barry Kort, is a MIT Media… Continue reading
Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Bauwens & Bruns)
This week the interviews with experts and (ex-)Wikipedians, on which parts of my paper “Peer Governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Governance (2009)” were based, are going to be presented in a series of separate posts. This first post contains the short interviews with Michel Bauwens and Axel Bruns who are… Continue reading
Peer governance and Wikipedia (1)
I am going to reproduce here parts of my paper “Peer governance and Wikipedia”. The following text deals with some tentative proposals regarding the problematic side of Wikipedia’s governance, departing from the battle between inclusionists and deletionists. — The main characteristics of peer governance are equipotentiality, heterarchy, holoptism, meritocracy, participation, openness, networking, and transparency. “The… Continue reading
A Critical Political Economic Framework for Peer Production’s Relation to Capitalism
Marxist authors often misunderstand us, because the P2P Foundation uses a socially reconstructive approach, rather than a critical approach, and subsumes conflict to reconstruction. It absolutely does NOT mean we ignore or deny conflict, but rather that we play a specialized role accompanying the reconstructive moment, which will always co-exist with the conflictual forces that… Continue reading
Platform Coop’s Governance (II): From Coop Platforms to Platform Ecoopsystems
The solution to the three problems I outlined in the first part of the post is not easy, for it is the problem of the governance (management of risks and cares, or more precisely, the legitimacy of the game of risks and cares) of large communities with different degrees of participation and stakes. Ana Manzanedo… Continue reading
Platform Coops’ Governance (I): Challenges
As I wrote in my previous post, we can build Platform Coops mainly based on thin relationships that follow maximizing individual self-interest, or based mainly on thick relationships that follow social and emotional engagement (always expect, though, a combination of the two). While governance is not the only factor that shapes relationships, it is nevertheless… Continue reading
Paywalls vs Creative Commons: Experiments with Patreon, Medium and LeanPub
Last year I wrote about my dilemma: I have an ethical commitment to the commons, and I want to make a living from my writing. I want to publish all my creative work for free, and I am at my most creative when I have a reliable income. In that story I shared my long history of writing on the… Continue reading
Regenerating a Carbon Drawdown Economy Through Reverse Mining and the Blockchain
This is a very exciting project! Connecting agriculture and finance in this new way is cutting edge and you are really breaking ground with this. My one caution for you is that in emphasizing the rejuvenation of the carbon cycle, you are marginalizing the rejuvenation of the hydrological cycle and the nitrogen cycle. While you… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Self-Organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production
A PhD Thesis: Self-organisation in Commons-Based Peer Production (Drupal: “the drop is always moving”) by David Rozas. University of Surrey, Department of Sociology, Centre for Research in Social Simulation, 2017. Abstract “Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) is a new model of socio-economic production in which groups of individuals cooperate with each other without a traditional hierarchical… Continue reading
Organizing and Governing the Commons: A Coop-Commons Multilevel Dialogue with Municipalities and Labour
In this rapidly changing world, existing systems are being weakened, resulting in risks as well as opportunities. The global economic crisis has degraded people’s working and living conditions but has also raised questions about the legitimacy of financialized capitalism. The development of digital technology has produced new types of precarious jobs, but it has also… Continue reading
The Commons: Beyond the State and the Market
As an alternative that has been tried and tested in practice by communities past and present, the paradigm of the commons goes beyond the state and the market and implies the radical self-instituting of society, allowing citizens to directly manage their shared resources. Yavor Tarinski, writing for New Compass, shares a great overview of the… Continue reading
Why you should read “Ours to Hack and to Own”: the book in 24 powerful insights
The book “Ours to Hack and to Own: the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and fairer Internet” edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider came off the presses a few months ago. You have to add to this the firsthand testimonial descriptions of twenty-five initiatives based on cooperative… Continue reading
Art Co-ops and the Power of Mobilizing Collaboration for Creativity
Maira Sutton: Brian Eno rejected the lone genius myth — the idea that groundbreaking works of art arise out of a notable few graced with exceptional talent. Instead, he observed that good artwork doesn’t miraculously emerge from a few great figures, but from relationships. He coined the term “scenius” to reflect the genius that arises out from… Continue reading
Commons Based Peer Production in the Information Economy
P2P Value is a landmark study because it is the first long (3-year) scientific study of 300+ peer production communities, and it largely confirms the ten years of empirical observations that form the basis of P2P Theory and the documentation in the P2P Foundation Wiki. Our team was also one of the 8 partners in… Continue reading