Internetsociologi

Johan Söderberg, doktorand i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet, är aktuell med en ny bok: “Hacking Capitalism -The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement“:

“The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below.”
(En mer omfattande sammanfattning av boken “Hacking Capitalism” finns här.)

Paul Hartzog från Social mobs relaterar boken till det betalda och obetalda arbetets strukturella förändring:

“I have long contended that a key transformation to p2p culture rests in the reclamation of the operationalization of ´work´ by the workers themselves: everything from self-selection (volunteerism) like we see on Wikipedia to widespread freelancing made possible by sites that match individuals’ skillsets to others’ needs. Now, Not An Employee celebrates the individual’s freedom to choose a self-directed work life ´unencumbered by employers and better without bosses.´”