[P2P-F] Fwd: Ours to Hack and to Own

Thu Aug 25 17:43:04 CEST 2016

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From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:44 PM
Subject: Ours to Hack and to Own
To: wsf2016 at lists.p2pfoundation.net

Dear fellow commoners who crossed paths at the WSF. Saw this and thought it
relevant to some of the discussions I attended and participated in.

Cheers,
Becky, McGill

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Ours to Hack and to Own

*THE RISE OF PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM, A NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK
AND A FAIRER INTERNET*
*http://tinyurl.com/zrgdosd <http://tinyurl.com/zrgdosd>*

Edited by TREBOR SCHOLZ <http://www.orbooks.com/trebor-scholz/> and NATHAN
SCHNEIDER <http://www.orbooks.com/nathan-schneider/>

Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.

Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent
thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and
how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put
together *Ours to Hack and to Own* argue for a new kind of online economy:
platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives
with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly,
exploitation, and surveillance.

The on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers
fought for centuries to win. Ordinary Internet users, meanwhile, retain
little control over their personal data. While promising to be the great
equalizers, online platforms have often exacerbated social inequalities.
Can the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers
set up their own platform, or if a city’s residents controlled their own
version of Airbnb? This book shows that another kind of Internet is
possible—and that, in a new generation of online platforms, it is already
taking shape.

Included in this volume are contributions from Michel Bauwens, Yochai
Benkler, Francesca Bria, Miriam Cherry, Ra Criscitiello, John Duda, Marina
Gorbis, Karen Gregory, Seda Gürses, Steven Hill, Dmytri Kleiner, Vasilis
Kostakis, Brendan Martin, Micky Metts, Kristy Milland, Mayo Fuster Morell,
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Rachel O’Dwyer, Janelle Orsi, Michael Peck, Carmen
Rojas, Douglas Rushkoff, Saskia Sassen, Juliet Schor, Palak Shah, Tom Slee,
Danny Spitzberg, Arun Sundararajan, Astra Taylor, Cameron Tonkinwise,
McKenzie Wark, and Caroline Woolard.

272 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-682190-62-3 • E-book 978-1-682190-63-0

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