[p2p-research] Fwd: editors' note

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:29 AM
Subject: editors' note
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


http://rethinkingmarxism.org/cms/node/1266

Rethinking Marxism Editors' note about the article The Amateur Class, or,
The Reserve Army of the
Web<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content%7Edb=all?content=10.1080/08935690902955179>

"Web 2.0 is exploiting a reserve army of amateurs. That's the evocative
argument advanced by Vasilis Kostakis concerning the transformation of the
computer industry inaugurated by the new version of the Internet. The
netarchists and netocrats who now own the platforms promote the
participation of amateurs who produce value for the administrators on a wide
variety of sites, including Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, del.icio.us, and
YouTube. The amateur enjoys the pleasures of creation, communication, and
socialization while the corporations make huge profits. The alternative,
according to Kostakis, might be called Social Contract 2.0, which
encompasses new meanings and ways of production (peer production) and
ownership (peer ownership) and constitutes “an abstract act of commitment
towards the creation of a real sphere of the Commons.”"





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