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With the rollback of net neutrality, platform cooperativism becomes even more pressing: In one volume, some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process.
List of contents
Something to Say Yes To1. Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz: What This Is and Isn¿t About
2. Nathan Schneider: The Meanings of Words
3. Trebor Scholz: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash the Network
4. Susie Cagle: The Seven Cooperative Principles
5. Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Eight Facts about Cooperative Enterprise
Platform Capitalism6. Douglas Rushkoff: Renaissance Now
7. Juliet Schor: Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces
8. McKenzie Wark: Worse Than Capitalism
9. Steven Hill: How the Un-Sharing Economy Threatens Workers
10. Christoph Spehr: SpongeBob, Why Don¿t You Work Harder?
11. Kati Sipp: Portable Reputation in the On-demand Economy
12. Dmytri Kleiner: Counterantidisintermediation
13. David Bollier: From Open Access to Digital Commons
An Internet of Our OwnShowcases: Cooperative Platforms
14. Yochai Benkler: The Realism of Cooperativism
15. Janelle Orsi: Three Essential Building Blocks for Your Platform Cooperative
16. Caroline Woolard: So You Want to Start a Platform Cooperative
17. Melissa Hoover: What We Mean When We Say ¿Cooperatives¿
18. David Carroll: A Different Kind of Startup is Possible
19. Marina Gorbis: Designing Positive Platforms
20. Cameron Tonkinwise: Convenient Solidarity: Designing for Platform Cooperativism
21. Seda Gurses: Designing for Privacy
22. Danny Spitzberg: How Crowdfunding Becomes Stewardship
23. Arun Sundararajan: Economic Barriers and Enablers of Distributed Ownership
24. Ra Criscitiello: There is Platform-Power in a Union
25. Saskia Sassen: Making Apps for Low-wage Workers and Their Neighborhoods
26. Kristy Milland: The Crowd: Naturally Cooperative, Unnaturally Silenced?
27. Tom Slee: Platforms and Trust: Beyond Reputation Systems
28. Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops
Conditions of PossibilityShowcases: infrastructure
29. John Duda: Beyond Luxury Cooperativism
30. Brendan Martin: Money is the Root of All Platforms
31. Carmen Rojas: From People-Centered Ideas to People-Powered Capital
32. Karen Gregory: Can Code Schools Go Cooperative?
33. Palak Shah: A Code for Good Work
34. Micky Metts: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Tech Co-op
35. Michael Peck: Building the People¿s Ownership Economy through Union Co-ops
36. Mayo Fuster Morell: Toward a Theory of Value for Platform Cooperatives
37. Francesca Bria: Public Policies for Digital Sovereignty
38. Miriam Cherry: Legal and Governance Structures Built to Share
39. Rachel O¿Dwyer: Blockchains and Their Pitfalls
40. Astra Taylor: Non-Cooperativism
ContributorsAcknowledgments
About the author
Trebor Scholz, scholar-activist, is Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School in NYC, where he convenes the Digital Labor conference series. Among other books, he is the author of the forthcoming
Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Taking Back the Digital Economy (Polity Press)
