The commons – as a constellation of specific projects, a transnational network, and a discourse that makes bracing moral and political claims -- is on the rise. It can be seen in renewed interest in classical commons such as farmland, fisheries, forests and water as well as in efforts to build communities around shared digital resources and re-imagine governance of city resources as commons, among many other initiatives. Much of the focus of commons is not on the resource alone, but on the social practices and norms of working together in equitable ways for shared ends, often known as “commoning.”
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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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We are a group of scholars within CUNY whose research addresses issues of digital labor. We formed this working group in order to both organize our thoughts about a rapidly changing and dynamic field of inquiry and reach out to a larger community of scholars addressing these same issues. Through this working group we aim … 
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I think we might eventually reach a society of abundance. I hope we do. Richard Stallman, FSF Las Indias and other like them, will profoundly change the
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The Bitcoin system—like the normal bank payments system—is intended to move monetary tokens between people through the changing of account entries on databases, but it has two immediate differences. First, the database that is used to record payments between people is public, rather than the privately held account databases of the normal banking system. Second, the intermediaries that change that database are a decentralized network of people (“miners”) running special Bitcoin software, rather than banks running their own private software systems.1
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By Fabian Tompsett in Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics. Otto Neurath (1882-1945) developed the approach of encyclopedism as an important tool to achieve the Unity of Science. This is examined in terms of his long term commitment to socialism
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Growing distrust in government is accompanied by new opportunities for civic involvement through online technological platforms. LiquidFeedback is one of the most interesting, as it embeds innovative features to support online deliberative processes.
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This action lab will help participants rapidly prototype a business model for their open education initiative. Participants will interactively identify customer segments, value propositions, partnerships, activities, resources and other business model components that establish the basis for their revenue model. Discussion, peer review and hands on work will be integrated into the lab.
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The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid ‘internships’ have emerged as increasingly important as a ‘way in’ to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This paper begins to address this knowledge gap by drawing on a study of interns in a third sector environmental organisation. The research findings reveal that unpaid internships were rationalised through a complex mix of political motivations, career ambitions and lifestyle aims, but these intersected in important ways with social class. These findings are not only of empirical interest, contributing to our knowledge of graduate negotiations of precarity, but also of theoretical value, extending our understanding of young people’s agency and motivations in transitions into work.
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The Internet of Communities (IoC) is a vision of a social Web willfully designed to maximize social engagement by introducing a new set of collective incentives. First, the IoC aims to explore how collective reputation can be used as a catalyst to regulate social interactions. Secondly, the IoC promotes internally rewarding incentives rooted in positive emotions and in reciprocity to spark social engagement without the prior need to mobilize financial assets. Collective reputation is chosen as a means for collective governance and internally rewarding incentives are chosen as the prime motive for action. Within this scheme, influence is more likely to shift to those who positively impact their communities, to those who lead by example, and to those who reciprocate with fairness. Grounded in personal fulfilment and in social empowerment, the IoC is therefore an attempt to actualize greater human, social and economic value from online communities. Read our white paper.
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By jose ramos in Energy Economics and Social Policy. Brings together 34 contributions which explore policy options and strategies for creating cities as commons - common pool resources - for urban development and transformation. Each contribution
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The digitalisation of work is creating new ways of intermediating work, with for example platforms intermediating work between individuals online. These so-called online collaborative platforms have the potential to fundamentally change the labour market, but for the moment, with an estimated 100,000 active workers or 0.05% of total employees in the EU, they do not seem to have a large impact on the offline/traditional labour market or the create/destroy impetus.
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This article reviews Paul Mason’s book “PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future”. It discusses Mason’s version of long wave theory, the book’s interpretation of Karl Marx, its analysis of the Grundrisse’s “Fragment on Machines”, and aspects of political struggles and societal change. The conclusion is that Paul Mason is digital Marxism’s Henryk Grossmann 2.0.paul
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Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas: How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity | Tetsuo Yanagi (auth.) | digital library bookzz | bookzz. Download books for free. Find books
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This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market instability and on structural issues in youth labour markets.
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However the political and juridical content remains to be defined, especially for its interaction with the concepts of public and private. In certain domains the political and theoretical thinking about the commons is stronger than in others, therefore the contribution they can offer to the debate is particularly interesting. In this perspective the study focuses on urban spaces and the role played by social movements in their definition. In fact no legislation in Europe recognizes the commons as a legal category and most of the social and political thinking about is part of grassroots engagement. The lack in legislation however doesn’t imply a lack of interest among law scholar nor among institutions: the proceedings of the Rodotà Commission in Italy in 2007 (aiming to include the commonsin the classification of goods in the civil code) and the researches and publications sponsored by the Social Cohesion Division of the Council of Europe (highlighting the importance of a legal recognition of the commons to protect them) are two consistent examples of this attention and provide focused views and approaches to the topic. According to the study of the Council of Europe, for example, the recognition and protection the commons would contribute to the eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights. In fact for grassroots movements focusing on social and economic alternatives the use of the definition of the commons is particularly relevant as a form of resilience against the crisis. Furthermore among the same grassroots movements an interest for legal aspects and legal implications is raising and it could contribute to the definition of the framework, where different components and different levels of awareness are blended.
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In this article Boris Nemtsov’s political activities and ideas are scrutinized in connection with the disintegration of Communism, the rise and fall of the Democratic Movement and the rise of Putinism. Nemtsov’s political career started in Nizhny
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Taking Control of the Public Sphere by Manipulating Civil Society: The Citizen Revolution in Ecuador
By taking advantage of the core discourses of the main social movements, Rafael Correa Delgado was elected president of Ecuador in 2006. Promising a 'citizen revolution', the President designed...
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