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The Art of Free Cooperation

The Art of Free Cooperation

Geert Lovink (Editor); Trebor Scholz (Editor); Brian Holmes (Contributor)

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Publisher: Autonomedia
Format: Book
Binding: pb/DVD
Released: Nov 10, 2007
ISBN-13: 9781570271779

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This book takes an inventory of the art of collaborative practice, surveys the landscape of new, cooperation-enhancing technologies, and renders the inner workings of cooperative processes as a new model for social movements. Civic participation is on the decline, but, online, more people work together than ever before. Activists contribute citizen journalism. New media artists create social online tools and urge others to participate. Knowledge collectives gather information in large, open repositories. Free culture - with all its file sharing applications - is blossoming. Contributors Howard Rheingold, Christoph Spehr, Brian Holmes, Geert Lovink and Trbor Scholz link the debates about web-based, cooperation-enhancing technologies to the broader world of political activism. This book and its accompanying DVD emerge out of intensive debates at the Free Cooperation conference in 2004 at the State University of New York at Buffalo facilitated by Scholz and Lovink.