Defining Web3 : a guide to the new cultural economy / edited by Quinn DuPont, Donncha Kavanagh and Paul Dylan-Ennis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DuPont, Quinn, editor.

Kavanagh, Donncha, editor.

Dylan-Ennis, Paul, editor.

Series:

Research in the sociology of organizations ; 0733-558X v. 89.

Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; volume 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic funds transfers--Technological innovations.

Electronic funds transfers.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations.

Business enterprises.

Blockchains (Databases).

Business--Data processing.

Business.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

xix, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation. Defining Web3 presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research from leading scholars in the field of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Exploring Web3 as a 'crypto-carnival,' the papers in this collection take the carnival as their central motif and organising frame to mirror how Web3 is permeated by the carnivalesque, with its games, play, politics, anarchy, dissimulation, humour, vulgarity, excessive consumption, and counter-cultural aesthetics. Walking the line between both enthusiasts and critics, the authors analyse the token economy's messy complications, excesses, dangers, and tensions, and how they might play out for the future of the Internet. Bringing together researchers, artists, and organisational designers to explore Web3's potential as a progressive platform for creative social coordination, this uniquely experimental volume tackles the deceptively simple question, 'What is Web3?' and imagines where it might take us next."--Publisher's website.

"Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation. Defining Web3 presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research from leading scholars in the field of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Exploring Web3 as a ‘crypto-carnival,’ the papers in this collection take the carnival as their central motif and organising frame to mirror how Web3 is permeated by the carnivalesque, with its games, play, politics, anarchy, dissimulation, humour, vulgarity, excessive consumption, and counter-cultural aesthetics. Walking the line between both enthusiasts and critics, the authors analyse the token economy’s messy complications, excesses, dangers, and tensions, and how they might play out for the future of the Internet. Bringing together researchers, artists, and organisational designers to explore Web3’s potential as a progressive platform for creative social coordination, this uniquely experimental volume tackles the deceptively simple question, ‘What is Web3?’ and imagines where it might take us next."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Defining Web3: A Guide to the New Cultural Economy / Quinn DuPont, Donncha Kavanagh and Paul Dylan-Ennis

Part 1: Big Tent

Chapter 2. Web3 is the opportunity we have had all along: Innovation Amnesia and Economic Democracy / Nathan Schneider

Chapter 3. Entering the Field of Web3: 'Infrastructuring' and how to do it / Kelsie Nabben

Chapter 4. Business without firms. A planetary design language for DAOs / Bernhard Resch

Chapter 5. A Progressive Web3: From Social Coproduction to Digital Polycentric Governance / Quinn DuPont

Chapter 6. Institutional Isomorphism in Web3: Same same but different? / Tara Merk and Rolf Hoefer

Chapter 7. Hash, Bash, Cash: How Change Happens in Decentralised Web3 Cultures / Paul Dylan-Ennis

Part 2: Vaudeville

Chapter 8. Political Economy of the Crypto-Art Craze / Geert Lovink

Chapter 9. When Digital Carnival? Distributed Control of the Metaverse Asset Layer to Enable Creative Digital Expression to Flourish / Eric Alston

Chapter 10. Web3 as decentralization theater? A framework for envisioning decentralization strategically / JP Vergne

Chapter 11. The Rise of Blockchain Egregores / Primavera de Filippi, Morshed Mannan, and Wessel Reijers

Chapter 12. Crypto Personalities as Carnivalesque Jesters / Alesha Serada

Chapter 13. Web3: The gentrified carnival? / Donncha Kavanagh

Part 3: Dare Devils

Chapter 14. The Gambler / Sandra Faustino

Chapter 15. Web3 and the amazing Computable Economy / Jason Potts

Chapter 16. Trying to Sell the Crow Queen in Web3: On the resistance of video gamers to cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and their financial logic / Diane-Laure Arjaliès and Samuel Compain-Eglin

Chapter 17. Blockchain and Web3: Mirrors, "Jouissance" and Social and Personal Identity Formation / Victoria Lemieux

Chapter 18. Blow That Mausoleum Down / Bill Maurer

Chapter 19. Immediate Gratuitousness / Finn Brunton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781835496015

1835496016

OCLC:

1433197740