Valorising the Cultural Content of the Commodity

2013 ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Foster
Keyword(s):  
Information Aggregation ◽  
Informational Content ◽  
Information Production ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Proprietary Information ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
Production Of Information

A change in the informational content of the commodity, along with the emergence of a decentralized networked communications environment, has given rise to new forms of informational work. Drawing on the thesis of immaterial labour this chapter explores how these new forms of informational work e.g. information aggregation systems for accessing the judgments of many minds, the distribution of digital free, and opportunities for the co-production of information goods, have emerged to valorise the cultural content of the commodity. The chapter begins by introducing the topic of information goods, and by identifying the main tenets of immaterial labour. This is followed by a discussion of these new forms of informational work within the context of proprietary and non-proprietary information production. The chapter concludes with a critique of the exploitation and use of immaterial labour in a networked information economy.

scholarly journals Outsourced information: identity and unpaid work in the age of digital journalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 359-377
Author(s):  
Teresa Cristina Furtado Matos ◽  
Serge Katembera Rhukuzage
Keyword(s):  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Information Production ◽  
Local News ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Age Of Information ◽  
Production Of Information

The Age of Information has been extensively studied by Castells, in the late 1980’s. Several of the implications discussed by this author at the time are observable nowadays, specially the ones concerning the tendencies to precariousness that labor activities related to information production present. Due to an increasingly accentuated demand for information, communication companies (such as TV stations and printed and online newspapers) have developed outsourcing methods of production of content. Said methods consist, basically, on the recruitment of a literate elite of professionals, originated from other countries, to produce quality “local news”. In this article, we analyze a concrete case of outsourcing of information, performed by a French blog platform that mainly recruits contributors from Africa. Based on the analysis of the interviews carried out with ten of these bloggers, we show, albeit in an exploratory way, the emerging conflicts that the process of outsourced production of information generates. During the discussion of this subject, we mobilized concepts developed within the field of sociology of work and other recent theoretical productions on the precariousness of informational work.

scholarly journals Order without Intellectual Property Law : Open Science in Influenza

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Kapczynski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Information Production ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Evaluative Feedback ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
New Literature

102 Cornell L. Rev. 1539 (2017)Today, intellectual property (IP) scholars accept that IP as an approach to information production has serious limits. But what lies beyond IP? A new literature on “intellectual production without IP” (or “IP without IP”) has emerged to explore this question, but its examples and explanations have yet to convince skeptics. This Article reorients this new literature via a study of a hard case: a global influenza virus-sharing network that has for decades produced critically important information goods, at significant expense, and in a loose-knit group—all without recourse to IP. I analyze the Network as an example of “open science,” a mode of information production that differs strikingly from conventional IP, and yet that successfully produces important scientific goods in response to social need. The theory and example developed here refute the most powerful criticisms of the emerging “IP without IP” literature, and provide a stronger foundation for this important new field. Even where capital costs are high, creation without IP can be reasonably effective in social terms, if it can link sources of funding to reputational and evaluative feedback loops like those that characterize open science. It can also be sustained over time, even by loose-knit groups and where the stakes are high, because organizations and other forms of law can help to stabilize cooperation. I also show that contract law is well suited to modes of information production that rely upon a “supply side” rather than “demand side” model. In its most important instances, “order without IP” is not order without governance, nor order without law. Recognizing this can help us better ground this new field, and better study and support forms of knowledge production that deserve our attention, and that sometimes sustain our very lives.

Information as Economic Good

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Ponelis
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Economic Good ◽  
Economic Goods ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legal And Ethical Issues

Information plays an important role in most economies, and in some economies constitutes the dominant sector where information is created, traded, sold, and brokered as a commodity or economic good. It is therefore important for all stakeholders to understand the unique nature of information as an economic good and the implications thereof on the creation, trading, selling, and brokering thereof, as well as the potential legal and ethical issues. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader with an overview of the origins of the information economy, information as an economic good, and the characteristics that distinguish it from other economic goods; the impact of these characteristics on the pricing and packaging of information goods as well as some of the legal and ethical issues that pertain to information systems are highlighted. The chapter concludes with possible future trends and research directions.

scholarly journals Can Open Source projects succeed when the producers are not users? Lessons from the data processing field1

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Jullien ◽  
Karine Roudaut
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Cumulative Innovation ◽  
Production Of Information

Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) proposes an original way to solve the incentive dilemma for the production of information goods, based on von Hippel (1988)’s user-as-innovator principle: as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it. But what is the incentive for producers when they are not users? We discuss this question via a qualitative study of FLOSS projects in “algorithm-based industries”. We find that in this case producers hardly participate in such projects.

scholarly journals The Economics of Digital Business Models: A Framework for Analyzing the Economics of Platforms

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Brousseau ◽  
Thierry Penard
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
The Core ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Digital Business Models ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Production Of Information

The paper proposes an analytical framework for comparing different business models for producing information goods and digital services. It is based on three dimensions that also refer to contrasted literature: the economics of matching, the economics of assembling and the economics of knowledge management. Our framework attempts to identify the principal trade-offs at the core of choices among alternative digital business models, and to compare them in terms of competitiveness and efficiency. It also highlights the role played by users in the production of information goods and competition with pure suppliers.

Exploring ethnic/cultural content of APA convention

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. John Lee ◽  
Joseph Trimble ◽  
George Cvetkovich ◽  
Walter Lonner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Content

Non-Public Monetary Systems in information Economy

2013 ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
O. Krasilnikov ◽  
E. Krasilnikova
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Monetary Systems ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Economic Institution

The article discusses the development of non-public monetary systems (NPMS), defined as a specific economic institution. It presents their comparison with public money systems depending on the size of transaction costs. The authors come to the conclusion that in conditions of the information economy on the basis of Internet-technologies NPMS receive a new impetus to their development and can make serious competition in regard to public monetary systems.

Information Aggregation via Stochastic Resonance in Moments

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Akihisa Ichiki ◽  
Yukihiro Tadokoro
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Resonance ◽  
Information Aggregation

Information Economy: the Formation of Special-Purpose Categoriсal Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.P. Semenyuk ◽  
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Ya.V. Kotlyarevsky ◽  
S.I. Kniaziev ◽  
O.V. Melnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Economy
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