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Discussion with Benjamin J. Birkinbine

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Évènement GdT Communs numériques, en anglais.

Benjamin J. Birkinbine (Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies, University of Nevada, Reno) will discuss his book, Incorporating the Digital Commons : Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software (University of Westminster Press, 2020).

The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open-source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. In this talk, the author will discuss the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism by discussing some of the case studies from the book. Furthermore, just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians, and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. Therefore, Birkinbine concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle, and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors.

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