Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071KD9YWV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 474 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among other books, he is the author of the forthcoming Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Taking Back the Digital Economy (Polity Press) . Nathan Schneider is a Scholar-in-Residence of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, The Catholic Worker, and other publications.Trebor Scholz, scholar-activist, is Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New
The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.The on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers fought for centuries to win. Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. Can the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers set up their own platform, or if a city’s residents controlled their
It’s a fascinating collection of not-all-that-techy articles on cooperative initiatives to resist the cooptation of the Internet" The American Conservative "Not all of the essays in this book focus or touch on open source; however, the key elements of the open source waycooperation, community, open governance, and digital freedomare always on or just below the surfaceThe book is more a manifesto than user guide. Schneider is the editor of Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, and he talks with us about making the online
Cordless Iron Man said One book is all you need. This collection of essays focused on the topic of platform cooperativism, gathers the thoughts and comments of a diverse range of writers and leading thinkers from various areas.Trebor Scholtz and Nathan Schneider are known as the leading thinkers behind platform coop'ism but here in one volume are short pieces from those in the open-source movement, the P"One book is all you need" according to Cordless Iron Man. This collection of essays focused on the topic of platform cooperativism, gathers the thoughts and comments of a diverse range of writers and leading thinkers from various areas.Trebor Scholtz and Nathan Schneider are known as the leading thinkers behind platform coop'ism but here in one volume are short pieces from those in the open-source movement, the P2P movement, the . P movement, the