Alternatives for the Internet: A Journey into Decentralised Network Architectures and Information Commons

Rosnay, Mélanie Dulong de; Musiani, Francesca

doi:10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1201

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“…In this way, smart city technologies have been discussed from a rights-based perspective (cf. Cardullo et al, 2019; de Lange and de Waal, 2019; Dulong de Rosnay and Musiani, 2020) and reframed as part of a wider structure to address wicked problems like racism and inequality (cf. “decentering smart cities” in Kitchin, 2022).…”

Section: Smart Enough To Common?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the architecture of digital technologies may themselves constitute important challenges for commoning. When it comes to decentralized systems, anachronistic legal frameworks, unsuitable technical architectures, the polluting impacts of digitalization all contribute to making online commoning challenging and unsustainable (Dulong de Rosnay and Musiani, 2020; Elkin-Koren and Salzberger, 2004).…”

Section: Trouble In Paradise? the Urban Commons A Tragedy In Three Partsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective

2023

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Borrowing from insights produced in urban planning, media and governance studies thereby leveraging the Ostrom-nian ideas of institutions and polycentricity, this paper examines how to govern commons in the smart city. It offers a reflection upon whether Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) could be a key notion for the commons discourse which centers around stakeholders, self-organization, and a rights-based framework. By decentralizing ledgers and enabling the interoperability of the various interfaces, DLTs make records more accessible, exchanges more transparent, and reduce costs while increasing efficiency, and permit automation, therefore commoning interactions both offline and online are facilitated. We argue that the use of DLTs to preserve the spatiotemporal integrity of key urban spaces is a common value question that needs to be elucidated or renegotiated in order to provide any useful guidance to DLTs integrity-preserving potential. In doing so, we draw attention to DLT-based urban commons and urban governance, and point to inherent incompatibilities that may lead to radical and not-so-smooth changes in urban institutions, while providing a way of thinking which can move the smart city closer towards a values-centered process and away from a preoccupation with technology and efficiency.

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Section: Smart Enough To Common?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Trouble In Paradise? the Urban Commons A Tragedy In Three Partsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective

2023

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“…At the same time, alternatives to the internet are being sought [Dulong de Rosnay & Musiani, 2020]. The authors stressed that for over twenty years, alternative forms of organising and networking -fuelled by the internet but sometimes pre-dating it -have been discussed as possible responses to the dynamics of concentration, centralisation and capture exemplified in the current pervasively digital world by the internet giants such as Google and Facebook.…”

Section: Narrative Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Camera Obscura or the Way Things Appear: Some Remarks About Marx’s Economic Writings

Mierzwa

2021

Review of Business and Economics Studies

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I analyse the foundations of Marx’s analysis to examine the applicability of Marx’s theory of the capitalist economy to the study of current economic events. In this paper, I do not present critique the interpretations of Marx’s works made by contemporary economists; however, much of modern Marxian economics is invalid in terms of Marx’s own method and inappropriate for understanding modern capitalism. The paper is concerned with topics that have been the subject of contemporary debate and are central to Marx’s own economic writings. Here I present only textual evidence of the main tendencies in the development of capitalism discovered by Marx. There are limits to value (= time) as the sole criterion of economic expediency; the constant reproduction of a scarcity of jobs amid an abundance of goods; enlargement of material commercial relations on the other spheres of social life; development of monetary relations – the emergence of derivatives of money, i. e., ersatz money, digital money. The main conclusion that I came to is that some societies are gradually losing value and moral guidelines, threatening the very development and even the existence of other communities or peoples.

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“…The ability of countries and individuals to respond to COVID-19 was entirely dependent upon information. The production of a vaccine and creating a resilient force against the spread of the virus requires shared data [89]. Decentralized knowledge and network architectures represent opportunities for individuals and groups to re-appropriate the internet [90].…”

Section: Property Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paying Attention: Big Data and Social Advertising as Barriers to Ecological Change

Kish

2020

Sustainability

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Big data and online media conglomerates have significant power over the behavior of individuals. Online platforms have become the largest canvas for advertising, and the most profitable commodity is users’ attention. Large tech companies, such as Facebook and Alphabet, use historically effective psychological advertisement tactics in tandem with enormous amounts of user data to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of their customers, who are not the end-users, but the corporations competing for advertising space on users’ screens. This commodification of attention is a serious threat to socio-ecological sustainability. In this paper, I argue that big data and social advertising platforms, such as Facebook, use commodified attention to take advantage of psycho-social neuroticisms and commodity fetishism in modern individuals to perpetuate conspicuous consumption. They also contribute to highly fragmented information ecologies that intentionally obscure scientific facts regarding ecological emergencies. The commitment to stakeholders and growth economics makes social advertising conglomerates a significant barrier to a socio-ecological future. I provide a series of solutions to this problem at the institutional, research, policy, and individual levels and areas for future sustainability research.

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Alternatives for the Internet: A Journey into Decentralised Network Architectures and Information Commons

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective

“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective

Camera Obscura or the Way Things Appear: Some Remarks About Marx’s Economic Writings

Paying Attention: Big Data and Social Advertising as Barriers to Ecological Change

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