Peer to Peer and the Subject
- Article: Peer to peer Production in the Software and Hardware communities, and the Subject. By Dr Phoebe Moore
To be published in: Media Ecologies
Abstract
"Scholars of media ecology, and what Fuller has called ‘media ecologies’ (2005) are interested in how real social change is possible, and in fact necessary, in the era of digital media. By questioning hierarchical formations in arrangements of lives and production and the lines of force for interactivity which have historically been uni-directional and fundamentally restricting, the peer to peer production movement is an example of the type of media ecology that promises ‘deep’ social, as well as mental, and environmental, change. Do the networked commons emerging from peer to peer production founded in the free software arena, and the ecologies of productive and artistic cooperation therein; pose a resilient threat to capitalism? This article deals with that question."
Author info
Dr Phoebe Moore, Lecturer in International Relations & International Political Economy