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Tkacz, Nathaniel (2010) Wikipedia and the politics of mass collaboration. Platform : journal of media and communication, Volume 2 (Number 2). pp. 40-53.
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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 | ||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 2 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 40-53 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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