Peer2Politics

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor for Culture & Media at the New School and author of the book Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016). He is currently touring European cities to talk about platform cooperativism.  Platform cooperativism, as he puts it, is "a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance." I talked to him about this young movement, its rise, and the steps ahead.

Moderation: Mercedes Bunz With Laurel Ptak, Ned Rossiter, Trebor Scholz The panel aims to locate and discuss the new processes of capital accumulation whic

Find out more at: https://re-publica.de/16/session/how-platform-cooperativism-can-unleash-network The distrust of the dominant extractive model of th

Find out more at: http://13.re-publica.de/node/5052 While it doesn't smell or look like labor at all; digital labor is part of the working lives of million