Digital Labor

Mayo Fuster

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Mayo Fuster Morell has developed research and extended publications in the field of the Internet and politics; social movements (Global Justice Movement, Free Culture Movement, the Indignados in Spain); online communities; common-based peer production; digital social economy, and public policies. She specializes in online methods and action-participation research. She currently directs a research group on the digital commons and Internet politics (IGOPnet.cc) at the Open University of Catalonia/Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is the Principal Investigator for IGOPnet.cc at the European Project P2Pvalue on the conditions that favor value creation in collaborative production and decentralize infrastructures. She is also Associated Faculty at the Berkman Center. She is member of the advisory board of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation and of their locals chapters in Spain/Catalonia. Mayo co-wrote the books “Digital commons and free culture” (Spanish, Editorial Icaria, 2015), “Nothing will be the same: Youth, Internet and Politics in Spain” (Spanish, Editorial Fundacion Reina Sofia, 2015), “Rethinking political organization in an age of movements and networks”(English and Italian version XL Editorial, Rome 2007; Spanish version, Icaria Editorial, Barcelona 2008).

 Platform Capitalism versus Platform Cooperativism
Collaboration and sharing are not independent practices that grow independent of the conditions out of which they emerge. How far does the ownership regime (platform capitalism versus platform cooperativism) shape the collaborative production and sharing practices? In her presentation, Fuster Morell will address these questions by analyzing the diverse ownership and governance regimes present in the concrete case of commons – based peer production, and investigate if and how ownership and governance shapes the collaborative process in terms of the type of collaboration engaged, sustainability strategy, and value creation. The presentation will be based on an analysis of a sample of 300 cases and the case comparison of 4 in-depth case studies as well as Fuster Morell’s experience in the field. This research is part of the European project “P2Pvalue.eu: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the Future Internet.” If ownership does not only constitute diverse labor and political modalities, but also determine what can be done and shared, then the selection (by peers and policy makers) between promoting platform capitalism versus platform cooperativism become more complex and has further implications.

 
Conditions of Possibility
Fri, November 13
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM

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