Ours to hack and to own : the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet / edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scholz, Trebor, editor.

Schneider, Nathan, 1984- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet--Economic aspects.

Cooperative societies.

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : OR Books, 2016.

Contents:

part 1. Something to say yes to: What this is and isn't about / Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider ; The meanings of words / Nathan Schneiderman ; How platform cooperativism can unleash the network / Trebor Scholz ; The seven cooperative principles / Susie Cagle ; Eight facts about cooperative enterprise / Jessica Gordon Nembhard

part 2. Platform capitalism: Renaissance now / Douglas Rushkoff ; Old exclusion in emergent spaces / Juliet B. Schor ; Worse than capitalism / McKenzie Wark ; How the un-sharing economy threatens workers / Steven Hill ; SpongeBob, why don't you work harder? / Christoph Spehr ; Portable reputation in the on-demand economy / Kati Sipp

part 3. An internet of our own: Showcase 1, platforms : Stocksy United, Fairmondo, Coopify, Gratipay, FairCoop, Member's Media, Ltd. Cooperative, TimesFreek, Snowdrift.coop, Resonate, Loconomics Cooperative, NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative, Seed. Coop ; The realism of cooperativism / Yochai Benkler ; Three essential building blocks for your platform cooperative / Janelle Orsi ; So you want to start a platform cooperative ... / Caroline Woolard ; What we mean when we say "cooperative" / Melissa Hoover ; A different kind of startup is possible / David Carroll ; Designing positive platforms / Marina Gorbis ; Convenient solidarity : designing for platform cooperativism / Cameron Tonkinwise ; Designing for privacy / Seda Gürses ; How crowdfunding becomes stewardship / Danny Spitzberg ; Economic barriers and enablers of distributed ownership / Arun Sundararajan ; There is platform-power in a union / Ra Criscitiello ; Making apps for low-wage workers and their neighborhoods / Saskia Sassen ; The crowd : naturally cooperative, unnaturally silenced / Kristy Milland ; Platforms and trust : beyond reputation systems / Tom Slee ; Why platform co-ops should be open co-ops / Michael Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis

part 4. Conditions of possibility: Showcase 2, ecosystem : Loomio Cooperative Ltd., the FairShare Model, Swarm Alliance, Ms., the Madeline System, Purpose Fund, rCredits, External Revenue Service, Data Commons Cooperative, Coliga, CommunityOS: Callicoon Project, Backfeed, My User Agreement ; Beyond luxury cooperativism / John Duda ; Money is the root of all platforms / Brendan Martin ; From people-centered ideas to people-powered capitalism / Carmen Rojas ; Can code schools go cooperative / Karen Gregory ; A code for good work / Palak Shah ; Meet your friendly neighborhood tech co-op / Micky Metts ; Building the people's ownership economy through union co-ops / Michael Peck ; Toward a theory of value for platform cooperatives / Mayo Fuster Morrell ; Public policies for digital sovereignty / Francesca Bria ; Legal and governance structures built to share / Miriam A. Cherry ; Blockchains and their pitfalls / Rachel O'Dwyer ; Non-cooperativism / Astra Taylor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 251).

ISBN:

9781682190623

1682190625

OCLC:

957955797

Publisher Number:

99969658747