Roberto Verzola's blog

Contesting Abundance: Shared for the Common Good or Monopolized for Private Profit?

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New technology's global digital infrastructure has become the basis for a new information economy whose most obvious feature is the abundance of free or low-cost information. Because it has become a dominant feature of our time, information abundance is forcing a deeper look at the concept itself. (more)

Abundance and the Generative Logic of the Commons

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The growth of the information economy has made it imperative to deal with the phenomenon of abundance. Unlike the long history of commons research, studies of abundance are few; thus, we are just starting to build theories about it. (more)

Undermining Abundance: The Big Business of Creating Scarcity

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Corporate profit-seeking increasingly uses technology and the law to undermine processes of abundance intrinsic to nature, agriculture and the information sector. How might we harness this abundance for the common good? (more)

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