"Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary
pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the
'openness' capitalism model and digital labour. Essential for
scholars and students across the social and economic sciences."
(Carlo Vercellone, Universite de Paris 8, France) "This vital book
is an objective and detailed assessment of the private capture of
common value, concluding with an in-depth survey of what
commons-friendly public authorities could do to defend the new
'common-wealth'." (Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation,
The Netherlands) "An outstanding analysis of how digital capital
uses openness as principle of capital accumulation and
exploitation. A must-read for everyone who wants to understand what
the internet and digital media are all about." (Christian Fuchs,
University of Westminster, UK) This book tackles the concept of
openness (as in open source software, open access and free
culture), from a critical political economy perspective to consider
its encroachment by capitalist corporations, but also how it
advances radical alternatives to cognitive capitalism. Drawing on
four case studies, Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness will add
to discussion on open source software, open access content
platforms, open access publishing, and open university courses.
These otherwise disparate cases share two fundamental features:
informational capitalist corporations base their successful
business models on unpaid productive activities, play, attention,
knowledge and labour, and do so crucially by resorting to
ideological uses of concepts such as "openness", "communities" and
"sharing". The authors present potential solutions and alternative
regulations to counter these exploitative and alienating business
models, and to foster digital knowledge commons, ranging from
co-ops and commons-based peer production to state agencies'
platforms. Their research and findings will appeal to students,
academics and activists around the world in fields such as
sociology, economy, media and communication, library and
information science, political sciences and technology studies.
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