Moral Orders in Contribution Cultures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison B Powell (0000-0001-5780-9132, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 513-529 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ccc/tcy023 |
| OpenAlex | W2895016669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article examines how decisions are made and justified within cultures of contribution using an “operational pragmatics.” Peer-production and contribution cultures are enfolded in a dynamic of resistance and appropriation in relation to capitalism. Open-source and contribution-based cultural processes have been critiqued as tending towards bureaucracy or becoming enfolded in a never-ending neoliberal imaginary from which escape or transcendence become impossible. An examination of the values expressed within a peer-production community challenges these perspectives and shows how “operational pragmatics” can provide moral justifications through reference to matters of principle and matters of design. Conflating these matters complicates claims about the inherent virtues of participation, especially in technical cultures. A qualitative analysis of an open-source hardware project shows how competing moral justifications unfold, and how the challenges that they pose to capitalism may be tenuous or temporary because of the way that justificatory regimes work within technology development under capitalism
Environmental ethics · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Philosophy
The Success of Open Source
Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Collaboration
Rethinking Repair
The reality of moral expectations
Hacking in the public interest
The limits of peer production
Disruptive sharing in a digital age
Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism and the media
Open culture and innovation
Democratizing production through open source knowledge
The end of history and the last man
The politics of 'platforms
The myth of 'us
A very complicated version of freedom
Free Labor
Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |