Ours to Hack and to Own (eBook)

Nathan Schneider is a Scholar-in-Residence of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written for Harper’s, The Nation, The New York Times, The Catholic Worker, and other publications.

Trebor Scholz, scholar-activist, is Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School in NYC, where he convenes the Digital Labor conference series. Among other books, he is the author of the forthcoming Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Taking Back the Digital Economy (Polity Press)

Something to Say Yes To

1. Nathan Schneider and Trebor Scholz: What This Is and Isn’t About
2. Nathan Schneider: The Meanings of Words
3. Trebor Scholz: How Platform Cooperativism Can Unleash the Network
4. Susie Cagle: The Seven Cooperative Principles
5. Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Eight Facts about Cooperative Enterprise

Platform Capitalism
6. Douglas Rushkoff: Renaissance Now
7. Juliet Schor: Old Exclusion in Emergent Spaces
8. McKenzie Wark: Worse Than Capitalism
9. Steven Hill: How the Un-Sharing Economy Threatens Workers
10. Christoph Spehr: SpongeBob, Why Don’t You Work Harder?
11. Kati Sipp: Portable Reputation in the On-demand Economy
12. Dmytri Kleiner: Counterantidisintermediation
13. David Bollier: From Open Access to Digital Commons

An Internet of Our Own
Showcases: Cooperative Platforms

14. Yochai Benkler: The Realism of Cooperativism
15. Janelle Orsi: Three Essential Building Blocks for Your Platform Cooperative
16. Caroline Woolard: So You Want to Start a Platform Cooperative
17. Melissa Hoover: What We Mean When We Say “Cooperatives”
18. David Carroll: A Different Kind of Startup is Possible
19. Marina Gorbis: Designing Positive Platforms
20. Cameron Tonkinwise: Convenient Solidarity: Designing for Platform Cooperativism
21. Seda Gurses: Designing for Privacy
22. Danny Spitzberg: How Crowdfunding Becomes Stewardship
23. Arun Sundararajan: Economic Barriers and Enablers of Distributed Ownership
24. Ra Criscitiello: There is Platform-Power in a Union
25. Saskia Sassen: Making Apps for Low-wage Workers and Their Neighborhoods
26. Kristy Milland: The Crowd: Naturally Cooperative, Unnaturally Silenced?
27. Tom Slee: Platforms and Trust: Beyond Reputation Systems
28. Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis: Why Platform Co-ops Should Be Open Co-ops

Conditions of Possibility
Showcases: infrastructure

29. John Duda: Beyond Luxury Cooperativism
30. Brendan Martin: Money is the Root of All Platforms
31. Carmen Rojas: From People-Centered Ideas to People-Powered Capital
32. Karen Gregory: Can Code Schools Go Cooperative?
33. Palak Shah: A Code for Good Work
34. Micky Metts: Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Tech Co-op
35. Michael Peck: Building the People’s Ownership Economy through Union Co-ops
36. Mayo Fuster Morell: Toward a Theory of Value for Platform Cooperatives
37. Francesca Bria: Public Policies for Digital Sovereignty
38. Miriam Cherry: Legal and Governance Structures Built to Share
39. Rachel O’Dwyer: Blockchains and Their Pitfalls
40. Astra Taylor: Non-Cooperativism
Contributors
Acknowledgments