Tonights unpopular opinion is the tragedy of the #DigitalCommons won't be resolved until we start looking beyond #DigitalGovernance, formal rules and expanding networks.
We have a very clear problem with the digital divide and underrepresented groups being highly focused on survival or #ReproductiveLabour rather than participating in these spaces.
Ironically the definition of "the digital commons" revolves around the concept of shared resources with a low barrier to access, but the reality if often the exact opposite to this.
So if the commons are too difficult to participate in, people with limited time, money, compute power, mental bandwidth aren't going to engage with these systems...
#Introduction
We are Open Terms Archive.
We publicly record every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight on #BigTech (and any digital service). https://opentermsarchive.org
As a decentralised #DigitalCommons working towards better #InternetGovernance, we are thrilled to be on the fediverse 😃
We will share here regular product updates, and sometimes interesting changes to terms with the hashtag #TermsSpotting —and encourage you to do the same!
Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
Then people don't have to use the above two
Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
(Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)
Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually
I've just published my first ever blog: "The Tragedy of the Non-Commons"
I wrote it in July, frustrated by a Twitter thread about how the Tragedy of the #Commons continues to be taught at universities. I then left it (it's somewhat experiemental) but with #COP27 and #Twittermigration coinciding this week, I just wanted it to be out there. Would love for it to be shared here on our #digitalcommons and grateful for any comments
my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.
i'm currently focusing on...
📘 a book on public data practices
🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk
i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.