Ours to Hack and to Own

The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2017
Or Books (Verlag)
978-1-944869-33-5 (ISBN)

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With the rollback of net neutrality, platform cooperativism becomes even more pressing: In one volume, 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.

A Wired Magazine Top Tech Book of 2017

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. 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. Ordinary Internet users, meanwhile, retain little control over their personal data. While promising to be the great equalizers, online platforms have often exacerbated social inequalities. 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 own version of Airbnb? This book shows that another kind of Internet is possible—and that, in a new generation of online platforms, it is already taking shape.

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.

Something to Say Yes To

1. Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz: What This Is and Isn’t About

2. Nathan Schneider: The Meanings of Words

3. Trebor Scholz: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash the Network

4. Susie Cagle: The Seven Cooperative Principles

5. Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Eight Facts about Cooperative Enterprise

Platform Capitalism

6. Douglas Rushkoff: Renaissance Now

7. Juliet Schor: Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces

8. McKenzie Wark: Worse Than Capitalism

9. Steven Hill: How the Un-Sharing Economy Threatens Workers

10. Christoph Spehr: SpongeBob, Why Don’t You Work Harder?

11. Kati Sipp: Portable Reputation in the On-demand Economy

12. Dmytri Kleiner: Counterantidisintermediation

13. David Bollier: From Open Access to Digital Commons

An Internet of Our Own

Showcases: Cooperative Platforms

14. Yochai Benkler: The Realism of Cooperativism

15. Janelle Orsi: Three Essential Building Blocks for Your Platform Cooperative

16. Caroline Woolard: So You Want to Start a Platform Cooperative

17. Melissa Hoover: What We Mean When We Say “Cooperatives”

18. David Carroll: A Different Kind of Startup is Possible

19. Marina Gorbis: Designing Positive Platforms

20. Cameron Tonkinwise: Convenient Solidarity: Designing for Platform Cooperativism

21. Seda Gurses: Designing for Privacy

22. Danny Spitzberg: How Crowdfunding Becomes Stewardship

23. Arun Sundararajan: Economic Barriers and Enablers of Distributed Ownership

24. Ra Criscitiello: There is Platform-Power in a Union

25. Saskia Sassen: Making Apps for Low-wage Workers and Their Neighborhoods

26. Kristy Milland: The Crowd: Naturally Cooperative, Unnaturally Silenced?

27. Tom Slee: Platforms and Trust: Beyond Reputation Systems

28. Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops

Conditions of Possibility

Showcases: infrastructure

29. John Duda: Beyond Luxury Cooperativism

30. Brendan Martin: Money is the Root of All Platforms

31. Carmen Rojas: From People-Centered Ideas to People-Powered Capital

32. Karen Gregory: Can Code Schools Go Cooperative?

33. Palak Shah: A Code for Good Work

34. Micky Metts: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Tech Co-op

35. Michael Peck: Building the People’s Ownership Economy through Union Co-ops

36. Mayo Fuster Morell: Toward a Theory of Value for Platform Cooperatives

37. Francesca Bria: Public Policies for Digital Sovereignty

38. Miriam Cherry: Legal and Governance Structures Built to Share

39. Rachel O’Dwyer: Blockchains and Their Pitfalls

40. Astra Taylor: Non-Cooperativism

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 209 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	1-944869-33-6 / 1944869336
ISBN-13	978-1-944869-33-5 / 9781944869335
Zustand	Neuware