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| Peer production: Peer production is a decentralized mode of production where individuals collaborate voluntarily to create or improve goods and services. It typically involves open-source projects, online communities, and other collaborative platforms where people share their knowledge, expertise, and resources to create a shared product or outcome. See also Internet, Internet culture, Open data, Open networks communication, Open source._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Yochai Benkler on Peer Production - Dictionary of Arguments
Benkler I 100 Peer Production Organization/Peer Production Prerequisites/Benkler: The great success of the Internet generally, and peer-production processes in particular, has been the adoption of technical and organizational architectures that have allowed them to pool (…) diverse efforts effectively. The core characteristics underlying the success of these enterprises are their modularity and their capacity to integrate many fine-grained contributions. Modularity: “Modularity” is a property of a project that describes the extent to which it can be broken down into smaller components, or modules, that can be independently produced before they are assembled into a whole. If modules are independent, individual contributors can choose what and when to contribute independently of each other. This maximizes their autonomy and flexibility to define the nature, extent, and timing of their participation in the project. Granularity: “Granularity” refers to the size of the modules, in terms of the time and effort that an individual must invest in producing them. I 101 The number of people who can, in principle, participate in a project is therefore inversely related to the size of the smallest scale contribution necessary to produce a usable module. The granularity of the modules therefore sets the smallest possible individual investment necessary to participate in a project. If the finest-grained contributions are relatively large and would require a large investment of time and effort, the universe of potential contributors decreases. A successful large-scale peer-production project must therefore have a predominate portion of its modules be relatively fine-grained. I 102 Vs: It is not necessary, however, that each and every chunk or module be fine-grained. Free software projects in particular have shown us that successful peer-production projects may also be structured, technically and culturally, in ways that make it possible for different individuals to contribute vastly different levels of effort commensurate with their ability, motivation, and availability. I 105 In combination then, three characteristics make possible the emergence of information production (…). 1. [T]he physical machinery necessary to participate in information and cultural production is almost universally distributed in the population of the advanced economies. 2. [T]he primary raw materials in the information economy, unlike the industrial economy, are public goods - existing information, knowledge, and culture. Their actual marginal social cost is zero. 3. Third, the technical architectures, organizational models, and social dynamics of information production and exchange on the Internet have developed so that they allow us to structure the solution to problems (…)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Benkler I Yochai Benkler The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom New Haven 2007 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27