Comments for The Journal of Peer Production

Comment on Editorial note: We now have the means of production, but where is my revolution? by Hackspace Research Resources | Polylarity

Hackspace Research Resources | Polylarity — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:57:54 +0000

[…] This can be found here: http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-5-shared-machine-shops/editorial-section/editorial-note-we-no… […]

Comment on Mission statement by Hackspace Research Resources | Polylarity

Hackspace Research Resources | Polylarity — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:57:11 +0000

[…] The Journal of Peer Production provides some useful resources, including some articles which discuss hackspaces directly. Rather than listing them all, I’ve provided the link to an editorial from an October 2014 special edition which includes the links to many of the relevant articles. […]

Comment on The Story of MIT-Fablab Norway: Community Embedding of Peer Production by Camille Bosqué : « Ne pas proposer une expérience lyophilisée de la fabrication numérique » | makerbox

Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:22:12 +0000

[…] routes, à la rencontre des makers et des hackers des quatre coins du globe, depuis le nord de la Norvège jusqu’à Dakar, en passant par Tokyo et San Francisco. Toutes ces rencontres et découvertes […]

Comment on Issue #5: Shared Machine Shops by Thinking about the past, present and future of the maker movement | Freak Atoms

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:26:08 +0000

[…] and values of ordinary makers actually are. (For articles engaging with all of these issues, see issue 5 of the Journal of Peer Production which focusses on shared machine […]

Comment on Reviews (Towards a New Reconfiguration Among the State, Civil Society and the Market) by Towards a new reconfiguration among the state, civil society and the market | Commons Strategies

Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:17:10 +0000

[…] Reviews for this paper can be found in the Journal of Peer Production Site. […]

Comment on Editorial note: We now have the means of production, but where is my revolution? by Are We Apolitical Bourgeois Hobbyists Promoting a Materialist Patriarchy? | District

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:37:21 +0000

[…] We now have the means of production, but where is my revolution?: An editorial by Peter Troxler and maxigas on our lack of global impact in the Journal of Peer Production (definitely read the rest of the articles in this issue since they’re all brilliant)– […]

Comment on Disrupting the cab: Uber, ridesharing and the taxi industry by Por que o Uber não é parte da economia colaborativa | Autoria em rede

Por que o Uber não é parte da economia colaborativa | Autoria em rede — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:14:07 +0000

[…] Disrupting the cab: uber, ridesharing and the taxi industry […]

Comment on Desired becomings by Feminist Theory and Free Software | P2P Foundation

Feminist Theory and Free Software | P2P Foundation — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:00:08 +0000

[…] Excerpted from Katja Mayer and Judith Simon: […]

Comment on Transforming the productive base of the economy through the open design commons and distributed manufacturing by Essay of the Day: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through Distributed Manufacturing | P2P Foundation

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 16:21:43 +0000

[…] Article: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manu…. By George Dafermos. Journal of Peer Production, […]

Comment on Disrupting the cab: Uber, ridesharing and the taxi industry by The Uberfication of the University | Discover Society

The Uberfication of the University | Discover Society — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:33:54 +0000

[…] Research on the sharing economy by McGregor, Brown and Glöss shows a certain ‘homophily’ occurs, as a result of which it is often ‘similar “types” of people [who] provide and use these services (in terms of class, education and race)’, especially when a rating system is employed. Uber, for example, enables both customers and drivers to rate one another, and suspends drivers if their scores are not high enough. Finally, it is the microentrepreneurs (who can now be potentially ‘any person’ rather than a specific set of employees) who labour to provide services in the market created by the platform on a freelance, on demand, and frequently precarious basis; who take the risks associated with having lost their rights, benefits and protection as employees; and who, according to this research, often face ‘increased surveillance, deskilling, casualisation and intensification’ of their labour too. […]