Open Source, Social Activism and "Necessary Trade-offs" in the Digital Enclosure: A Case Study of Platform Co-operative, Loomio.org

Open Source, Social Activism and "Necessary Trade-offs" in the Digital Enclosure: A Case Study of Platform Co-operative, Loomio.org

This article explores the tensions and tradeoffs facing the open source platform co-operative Loomio.org, an online tool that aims to decentralize power through deliberative decision-making. Combining discourse analysis with political economy, we demonstrate how Loomio’s politics of resistance is bu...

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Main Authors: Sam K Jackson, Kathleen M Kuehn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: tripleC 2016-10-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Subjects:
open source
digital commons
web 2.0
Occupy
commodification
datafication
data management
privacy
platform co-operativism
social justice movements
Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/764

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