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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online - 0 views

www.wired.com/...nep_newsocialism SocialWeb sharing colaboration
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 09 Oct 10 - Cached
  • These folks, he said, were a "new modern-day sort of communists,"
  • The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.
  • Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide.
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  • This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
  • It is decentralization extreme.
  • Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.
  • I use socialism because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely for their power on social interactions.
  • When masses of people who own the means of production work toward a common goal and share their products in common, when they contribute labor without wages and enjoy the fruits free of charge, it's not unreasonable to call that socialism.
  • aging hippy John Barlow
  • Rather, it is a spectrum of attitudes, techniques, and tools that promote collaboration, sharing, aggregation, coordination, ad hocracy, and a host of other newly enabled types of social cooperation.
  • Clay Shirky
  • Groups of people start off simply sharing and then progress to cooperation, collaboration, and finally collectivism.
  • I. SHARING
  • personal photos
  • status updates
  • map locations
  • half-thoughts
  • 6 billion videos
  • millions of fan-created stories
  • reviews
  • locations
  • bookmarks
  • Sharing is the mildest form of socialism
  • II. COOPERATION
  • emerge at the group level
  • Creative Commons
  • Thousands of aggregator sites
  • III. COLLABORATION
  • IV. COLLECTIVISM
  • "Inside every working anarchy, there's an old-boy network."
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Social Web: Wie das Internet Machtverhältnisse verändert - 0 views

www.welt.de/...tverhaeltnisse-veraendert.html socialweb news
shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Für Professor Peter Kruse ist der Fall Nestlé ein Beispiel für die politische Dimension des Internet. Seine These lautet: "Social Media ist ein Angriff auf die etablierten Regeln der Macht und erzwingt ein grundlegendes Umdenken."
  • Kruse beschreibt die Entwicklung des Social Web in drei Phasen. Nach dem auf Faszination basierenden "Zugangsboom" der späten 90er-Jahre (Boris Becker 1999 für den Internetserviceprovider AOL: "Ich bin drin") und dem Nutzungsboom der späten 00er-Jahre mit der rasanten Verbreitung der Sozialen Netzwerke folgt jetzt eine Welle, in der sich Internetnutzer machtvoll zu Bewegungen zusammenschließen. Sie hätten die politische Agenda gesetzt, und zwar ohne einen Rückgriff auf etablierte Strukturen und die etablierten Massenmedien, sagte Kruse.
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