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Includes stars in the field such as Yochai Benkler, Douglas Rushkoff, Astra Taylor, Dmytri Kleiner Definitive collection on building and sustaining a cooperative Internet

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Author:   Trebor Scholz ,  Nathan Schneider
Publisher:   OR Books
Imprint:   OR Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781944869335

ISBN 10:   1944869336
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 August 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Something to Say Yes To 1. Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz: What This Is and Isn’t About 2. Nathan Schneider: The Meanings of Words 3. Trebor Scholz: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash the Network 4. Susie Cagle: The Seven Cooperative Principles 5. Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Eight Facts about Cooperative Enterprise Platform Capitalism 6. Douglas Rushkoff: Renaissance Now 7. Juliet Schor: Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces 8. McKenzie Wark: Worse Than Capitalism 9. Steven Hill: How the Un-Sharing Economy Threatens Workers 10. Christoph Spehr: SpongeBob, Why Don’t You Work Harder? 11. Kati Sipp: Portable Reputation in the On-demand Economy 12. Dmytri Kleiner: Counterantidisintermediation 13. David Bollier: From Open Access to Digital Commons An Internet of Our Own Showcases: Cooperative Platforms 14. Yochai Benkler: The Realism of Cooperativism 15. Janelle Orsi: Three Essential Building Blocks for Your Platform Cooperative 16. Caroline Woolard: So You Want to Start a Platform Cooperative 17. Melissa Hoover: What We Mean When We Say “Cooperatives” 18. David Carroll: A Different Kind of Startup is Possible 19. Marina Gorbis: Designing Positive Platforms 20. Cameron Tonkinwise: Convenient Solidarity: Designing for Platform Cooperativism 21. Seda Gurses: Designing for Privacy 22. Danny Spitzberg: How Crowdfunding Becomes Stewardship 23. Arun Sundararajan: Economic Barriers and Enablers of Distributed Ownership 24. Ra Criscitiello: There is Platform-Power in a Union 25. Saskia Sassen: Making Apps for Low-wage Workers and Their Neighborhoods 26. Kristy Milland: The Crowd: Naturally Cooperative, Unnaturally Silenced? 27. Tom Slee: Platforms and Trust: Beyond Reputation Systems 28. Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops Conditions of Possibility Showcases: infrastructure 29. John Duda: Beyond Luxury Cooperativism 30. Brendan Martin: Money is the Root of All Platforms 31. Carmen Rojas: From People-Centered Ideas to People-Powered Capital 32. Karen Gregory: Can Code Schools Go Cooperative? 33. Palak Shah: A Code for Good Work 34. Micky Metts: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Tech Co-op 35. Michael Peck: Building the People’s Ownership Economy through Union Co-ops 36. Mayo Fuster Morell: Toward a Theory of Value for Platform Cooperatives 37. Francesca Bria: Public Policies for Digital Sovereignty 38. Miriam Cherry: Legal and Governance Structures Built to Share 39. Rachel O’Dwyer: Blockchains and Their Pitfalls 40. Astra Taylor: Non-Cooperativism Contributors Acknowledgments

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-A manifesto. - --Open Source -A timely book. - --Peace News

A manifesto. --<i>Open Source</i> A timely book. --<i>Peace News</i>

Selected praise for Ours to Hack and to Own <p/> An extremely timely publication covering the legal, social, technical and economic aspects of the platform co-op movement. If you've ever wondered about how a new, collaborative, sustainable, democratic economy might work, the new book Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, is for you. --OpenDemocracy.net <p/> What if Uber drivers set up their own platform, or if a city's residents controlled their own version of Airbnb? How about if enough Twitter users got together to buy the company in order to share its ownership? The latter idea comes from Nathan Schneider, co-editor of one of the best guides to this emerging area Ours to Hack and To Own. It's a fascinating collection of not-all-that-techy articles on cooperative initiatives to resist the cooptation of the Internet --The American Conservative <p/> Not all of the essays in this book focus or touch on open source; however, the key elements of the open source way--cooperation, community, open governance, and digital freedom--are always on or just below the surface. ....The book is more a manifesto than user guide. Having said that, Ours to Hack and to Own offers a glimpse at what we can do if we apply the principles of the open source way to society and to the wider world. --Opensource.com <p/> The internet is pretty cool. After all, where else could you order super-fancy organic tea at 3 in the morning? Or look up who played the main conquistador in Aguirre, The Wrath of God? But, as cool and world-changing as the internet is, Nathan Schneider thinks there are some major flaws in it. Namely, that we don't have a stake in most of the services we use. Schneider is the editor of Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, and he talks with us about making the online world more equitable. --Innovation Hub, WGBH

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Nathan Schneider is a Scholar-in-Residence of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written for Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, The Catholic Worker, and other publications.

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