Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness
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Authors: Lund, Arwid, Zukerfeld, Mariano
- Addresses issues of governance and citizenship, politics and policy outcomesSits at the intersection of three fields of knowledge concerning commons and collaborative production, new business models on the Internet, and politics of cognitive capitalism’s social relationsEstablishes the particularities of "open" business models and the ways in which these models are implicated in contemporary capitalist accumulation
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness
- Book Subtitle
- Profit for Free?
- Authors
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- Arwid Lund
- Mariano Zukerfeld
- Series Title
- Dynamics of Virtual Work
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-28219-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-28219-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-28218-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 337
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
- Topics
