Tkacz, Nathaniel (2010) Wikipedia and the politics of mass collaboration. Platform : journal of media and communication, Volume 2 (Number 2). pp. 40-53. ISSN 1836-5132.

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Abstract

Working together to produce socio-technological objects, based on emergent platforms
of economic production, is of great importance in the task of political transformation and the
creation of new subjectivities. Increasingly, “collaboration” has become a veritable buzzword
used to describe the human associations that create such new media objects. In the language
of “Web 2.0”, “participatory culture”, “user-generated content”, “peer production” and
the “produser”, first and foremost we are all collaborators. In this paper I investigate recent
literature that stresses the collaborative nature of Web 2.0, and in particular, works that
address the nascent processes of peer production. I contend that this material positions such
projects as what Chantal Mouffe has described as the “post-political”; a fictitious space far
divorced from the clamour of the everyday. I analyse one Wikipedia entry to demonstrate the
distance between this post-political discourse of collaboration and the realities it describes,
and finish by arguing for a more politicised notion of collaboration.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Wikipedia, Political science, Web 2.0, Academic-industrial collaboration, Political science -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title:	Platform : journal of media and communication
Publisher:	University of Melbourne * School of Culture and Communication
ISSN:	1836-5132
Official Date:	2010
Dates:	Date Event 2010 Published
Volume:	Volume 2
Number:	Number 2
Page Range:	pp. 40-53
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	24 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access:	24 December 2015

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