Collaborative society / Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska.
By: Jemielniak, Dariusz [author.].
Contributor(s): Przegalinska, Aleksandra [author.] | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: BookSeries: MIT Press essential knowledge series: Publisher: Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2020]Description: 1 PDF (256 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262356442.Subject(s): Online social networks | Social networks | CooperationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collaborative society.DDC classification: 302.30285 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neither a sharing nor economy -- Peer production -- Collaborative media production and consumption -- Collaborative social activism and hacktivism -- Collaborative knowledge creation -- Collaborative gadgets -- Being together online -- Controversies and the future of collaborative society.
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How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation. The book covers the "sharing economy," and the hijacking of the term by corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the definitions of "amateur" and "professional," and the power of memes; hactivism and social movements, including Anonymous and anti-ACTA protest; collaborative knowledge creation, including citizen science; collaborative self-tracking; and internet-mediated social relations, as seen in the use of Instagram, Snapchat, and Tinder. Finally, the book considers the future of these collaborative tendencies and the disruptions caused by fake news, bots, and other challenges.
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