Lecture: Realm of Freedom?

Wikipedia and Wikipedians Relation to Capitalism

The lecture builds on a forthcoming dissertation on the Swedish Language Version of Wikipedia based on 9 qualitative and semi-structured interviews with Swedish Wikipedians on their views of their practice, mode of production and capitalism. On the micro level the study focus on four concepts: playing, gaming, working and labouring. On the macro level focus is on the systemic relation between Wikipedia as a embryonic mode of production and its relation to capitalism as a system. The study highlights the Wikipedians views on wage labour within the Wikimedia Foundation and in editing, and external actors paid labour within the project, but also focus on the projects complementary or alternative role in relation to capitalism.

A lecture that presents a dissertation in Library and Information Science at Uppsala University, that will be publicly defended 2th of October 2015.
The conclusions and their visualisation will be stressed.

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Day: 2015-11-08
Start time: 15:15
Duration: 00:45
Room: Lilla Hörsalen
Track: Keepers of Culture

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