<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Becky Lentz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:44 PM<br>Subject: Ours to Hack and to Own<br>To: <a href="mailto:wsf2016@lists.p2pfoundation.net">wsf2016@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Becky, McGill</div><div><div><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt">----------------------</span></div><div><h2>Ours to Hack and to Own</h2>
<p><strong>THE RISE OF PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM, A NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK AND A FAIRER INTERNET</strong></p>
<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/zrgdosd" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/zrgdosd</a></b><br><p>Edited by <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.orbooks.com/trebor-scholz/" target="_blank">TREBOR SCHOLZ</a> and <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.orbooks.com/nathan-schneider/" target="_blank">NATHAN SCHNEIDER</a></p><p>Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.</p><div>
<p>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 <em>Ours to Hack and to Own</em> 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.</p>
<p>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.
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<p>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.</p>
<p>272 pages • Paperback ISBN 978-1-682190-62-3 • E-book 978-1-682190-63-0</p></div></div></div></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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