Mathieu O’neil
Biographic Data
| ID | 138352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathieu O’neil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathieu |
| FAMILY NAME | O’neil |
| SIGNATURE | O’NEIL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3537-9036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies
The article seeks to understand how the digital commons movement addresses ecological issues, how its actors incorporate them into their ethics and praxis, and the challenges they face in scaling up to become a viable ecological alternative to digital capitalism. Building on three case studies, we show that the digital commons currently face three major limitations: reliance on unsustainable Big Tech products, inability or unwillingness to scale …
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source
The data economy depends on digital infrastructure produced in self-managed projects and communities. To understand how information technology (IT) firms communicate to a volunteer workforce, we examine IT firm and foundation employee discourses about open source. We posit that organizations employ rhetorical strategies to advocate for or resist changing the meaning of this institution. Our analysis of discourses collected at three open source pr…
Mapping the connections of health professionals to Covid-19 myths and facts in the Australian Twittersphere
The spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media has elicited concern amongst scholars, health agencies and governments owing to its potential harms to public health. This article addresses the question of how networks of Australian health professionals engaged with COVID-19 facts and myths on Twitter between August and October 2020. After reviewing selected literature on COVID-19 misinformation, we present our analytical choices and the met…
Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality
The global economy’s digital infrastructure is based on free and open source software. To analyse how firms indirectly collaborate via employee contributions to developer-run projects, we propose a formal definition of ‘industrial public goods’ – inter-firm cooperation, volunteer and paid labour overlap, and participation inequality. We verify its empirical robustness by collecting networks of commits made by firm employees to active GitHub softw…
Firm Discourses and Digital Infrastructure Projects
Free and open source software (a.k.a. FOSS or ‘digital infrastructure’) is now fully integrated into commercial ecosystems. IT firms invest in FOSS in order (a) to share with other firms development costs; (b) to help attract prospective employees in a competitive job market where hiring skilled IT professionals is challenging and (c) to shape the governance and technical orientation of projects: firm employees participating in leading in FOSS pr…
Risk issue adoption in an online social movement field
This article extends the field conceptualisation of social change and innovation adoption, which hinges upon the strategic capacities of actors, to the online environment. We focus on a key aspect of social movement organisations (SMOs), competition for members, resources and attention over an environmental risk issue. The incorporation of network theory enables us to map how the structural position of actors in the field is associated with their…
Open source has won and lost the war’: Legitimising commercial–communal hybridisation in a Foss project
Information technology (IT) firms are paying developers in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of work. In order to understand how the firm–project hybridisation process occurs, we present the results of an online survey of participants in the Debian project, as well as interviews with Debian Developers. We find that the intermingling of the commercial logic of the firm and the communal logic of…
Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism: The US Matrix
In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political eco
Hacking Weber: Legitimacy, critique, and trust in peer production
This article examines the acceptance of control in anti-authoritarian environments. It argues that the use of the Weberian notion of legitimate domination or authority is appropriate in the context of collaborative online projects. The central argument is that legitimacy in collaborative projects constitutes itself in response to critique. In the realm of knowledge, the critique of external expertise forms the basis for the individualized, charis…
Collaborative Internet Governance: Terms and Conditions of Analysis
Les projets collaboratifs en ligne rassemblent des volontaires qui tentent de s’affranchir des hiérarchies de la vie quotidienne et de créer des institutions autonomes. De nombreux cadres théoriques ont été avancés pour rendre compte des capacités communicationelles et organisationnelles de ces acteurs en réseau. Cet article recense la terminologie utilisée dans la recherche sur Internet et évalue ce qu’elle implique pour la compréhension de l’ac…
Domination et critique dans les projets collaboratifs sur internet
Les personnes qui s'investissent dans des projets collaboratifs en ligne font preuve d'une attitude morale, visant à éliminer toute forme d'exploitation et de domination. Comment dans ces conditions leur faire accepter des décisions contraignantes, pourtant nécessaires à la bonne administration des projets ? Dans cet article, la domination légitime dans ces projets est définie comme une résistance à de nouvelles formes de critique. Dans le domain…
Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement
Rebels for the System? Virus Writers, General Intellect, Cyberpunk and Criminal Capitalism
In recent years there have been numerous reports of attacks against computer systems around the world by viruses created by ‘computer hackers’. It is asserted in the media that the time and energy required to assess and repair the damage caused by this malicious software, sometimes known as ‘malware’, is proving increasingly costly to corporations. The seriousness of the threat posed by rogue computer programmers to the economic system seems to b…
Open source has won and lost the war’: Legitimising commercial–communal hybridisation in a Foss project
Information technology (IT) firms are paying developers in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of work. In order to understand how the firm–project hybridisation process occurs, we present the results of an online survey of participants in the Debian project, as well as interviews with Debian Developers. We find that the intermingling of the commercial logic of the firm and the communal logic of…
Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality
The global economy’s digital infrastructure is based on free and open source software. To analyse how firms indirectly collaborate via employee contributions to developer-run projects, we propose a formal definition of ‘industrial public goods’ – inter-firm cooperation, volunteer and paid labour overlap, and participation inequality. We verify its empirical robustness by collecting networks of commits made by firm employees to active GitHub softw…
Domination et critique dans les projets collaboratifs sur internet
Les personnes qui s'investissent dans des projets collaboratifs en ligne font preuve d'une attitude morale, visant à éliminer toute forme d'exploitation et de domination. Comment dans ces conditions leur faire accepter des décisions contraignantes, pourtant nécessaires à la bonne administration des projets ? Dans cet article, la domination légitime dans ces projets est définie comme une résistance à de nouvelles formes de critique. Dans le domain…
Rebels for the System? Virus Writers, General Intellect, Cyberpunk and Criminal Capitalism
In recent years there have been numerous reports of attacks against computer systems around the world by viruses created by ‘computer hackers’. It is asserted in the media that the time and energy required to assess and repair the damage caused by this malicious software, sometimes known as ‘malware’, is proving increasingly costly to corporations. The seriousness of the threat posed by rogue computer programmers to the economic system seems to b…
Rebels for the System? Virus Writers, General Intellect, Cyberpunk and Criminal Capitalism
In recent years there have been numerous reports of attacks against computer systems around the world by viruses created by ‘computer hackers’. It is asserted in the media that the time and energy required to assess and repair the damage caused by this malicious software, sometimes known as ‘malware’, is proving increasingly costly to corporations. The seriousness of the threat posed by rogue computer programmers to the economic system seems to b…
Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement
Collaborative Internet Governance: Terms and Conditions of Analysis
Les projets collaboratifs en ligne rassemblent des volontaires qui tentent de s’affranchir des hiérarchies de la vie quotidienne et de créer des institutions autonomes. De nombreux cadres théoriques ont été avancés pour rendre compte des capacités communicationelles et organisationnelles de ces acteurs en réseau. Cet article recense la terminologie utilisée dans la recherche sur Internet et évalue ce qu’elle implique pour la compréhension de l’ac…
Domination et critique dans les projets collaboratifs sur internet
Les personnes qui s'investissent dans des projets collaboratifs en ligne font preuve d'une attitude morale, visant à éliminer toute forme d'exploitation et de domination. Comment dans ces conditions leur faire accepter des décisions contraignantes, pourtant nécessaires à la bonne administration des projets ? Dans cet article, la domination légitime dans ces projets est définie comme une résistance à de nouvelles formes de critique. Dans le domain…
Hacking Weber: Legitimacy, critique, and trust in peer production
This article examines the acceptance of control in anti-authoritarian environments. It argues that the use of the Weberian notion of legitimate domination or authority is appropriate in the context of collaborative online projects. The central argument is that legitimacy in collaborative projects constitutes itself in response to critique. In the realm of knowledge, the critique of external expertise forms the basis for the individualized, charis…
Digital Labour and Prosumer Capitalism: The US Matrix
In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers. Replacing digital labour and prosumption within an American context and the wider political eco
Firm Discourses and Digital Infrastructure Projects
Free and open source software (a.k.a. FOSS or ‘digital infrastructure’) is now fully integrated into commercial ecosystems. IT firms invest in FOSS in order (a) to share with other firms development costs; (b) to help attract prospective employees in a competitive job market where hiring skilled IT professionals is challenging and (c) to shape the governance and technical orientation of projects: firm employees participating in leading in FOSS pr…
Risk issue adoption in an online social movement field
This article extends the field conceptualisation of social change and innovation adoption, which hinges upon the strategic capacities of actors, to the online environment. We focus on a key aspect of social movement organisations (SMOs), competition for members, resources and attention over an environmental risk issue. The incorporation of network theory enables us to map how the structural position of actors in the field is associated with their…
Open source has won and lost the war’: Legitimising commercial–communal hybridisation in a Foss project
Information technology (IT) firms are paying developers in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, leading to the emergence of hybrid forms of work. In order to understand how the firm–project hybridisation process occurs, we present the results of an online survey of participants in the Debian project, as well as interviews with Debian Developers. We find that the intermingling of the commercial logic of the firm and the communal logic of…
Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality
The global economy’s digital infrastructure is based on free and open source software. To analyse how firms indirectly collaborate via employee contributions to developer-run projects, we propose a formal definition of ‘industrial public goods’ – inter-firm cooperation, volunteer and paid labour overlap, and participation inequality. We verify its empirical robustness by collecting networks of commits made by firm employees to active GitHub softw…
Mapping the connections of health professionals to Covid-19 myths and facts in the Australian Twittersphere
The spread of COVID-19 misinformation on social media has elicited concern amongst scholars, health agencies and governments owing to its potential harms to public health. This article addresses the question of how networks of Australian health professionals engaged with COVID-19 facts and myths on Twitter between August and October 2020. After reviewing selected literature on COVID-19 misinformation, we present our analytical choices and the met…
Digital Commons for the Ecological Transition: Ethics, Praxis and Policies
The article seeks to understand how the digital commons movement addresses ecological issues, how its actors incorporate them into their ethics and praxis, and the challenges they face in scaling up to become a viable ecological alternative to digital capitalism. Building on three case studies, we show that the digital commons currently face three major limitations: reliance on unsustainable Big Tech products, inability or unwillingness to scale …
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source
The data economy depends on digital infrastructure produced in self-managed projects and communities. To understand how information technology (IT) firms communicate to a volunteer workforce, we examine IT firm and foundation employee discourses about open source. We posit that organizations employ rhetorical strategies to advocate for or resist changing the meaning of this institution. Our analysis of discourses collected at three open source pr…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Open Source Software Innovations (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works)