Digital Humanities Seminar: Open Data in the Age of Big Data Capitalism – Arwid Lund, 6 December 2017, 13:00-14:00 (K1040, Building K, Växjö) | Medarbetare

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-12-06

Summary:

"This article contains a case study of Open Knowledge Network's perspective on openness' relation to private property and capitalism in the informational field. It does so first through an analysis of the network's understanding of the copyleft principle, and second through an analysis of the organisation's view on open business models. A theoretical reading of classical political perspectives on the concept of freedom supports the analysis. One result is the identification of a central ideological lacuna in absent discussions of unconditionally opened-up resources that strengthen the accumulation cycle of capital. This logic favours the negative freedom of closed business models in the competition with open ones that could foster more positive notions of freedom, although open business models are generally advocated and commons are mentioned as desirable. In a dominant ideological formation, openness is used to promote its opposite in the economic field."

Link:

https://medarbetare.lnu.se/social/groups/aktiviteter-pa-och-kring-lnu/posts/61325

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oa.new oa.data oa.digital_humanities oa.sweden oa.economics_of oa.events oa.humanities oa.ssh

Date tagged:

12/06/2017, 14:16

Date published:

12/06/2017, 09:16