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2012年1月17日 · Throughout Gatewatching, Bruns clings to the goal of multiperspectival coverage and argues that online collaborative communities are better positioned to produce and promote a diversity of perspectives than traditional mass media organizations. To support this view, Bruns builds upon classic Gatekeeping theory introduced by Kurt Lewin (1947 ...
Description. Robert Steele : "Beginning in the 1990s when the modern intelligence reform began, the equation of national intelligence with the US government's secret intelligence community began to be questioned. As early as 1992, and consistent with the emergence of the debate over Internet on-ramps for all instead of a handful of research ...
- Introduction. Dominant Wisdom.
- Seeing The Commons
- Tragedy of The Commons: Two World Views in Conflict Competition v. Cooperation
- Going Beyond The Tragedy
- The Holistic Revolution: Rehabilitating The Common Sense
- Political Shift
- Conclusion
Social justice is pursued in Western democracies by the (currently declining) institutions of theWelfare State. Access to social justice programs are usually understood as provided by “rights ofsecond generation.” These social rights are not merely negative (shields against infringement), likeproperty rights, but are considered positive i.e. requir...
The current vision presents the opposition between “the public” (the domain of the State) and “theprivate” (the domain of the market and of private property) as exhausting all the range ofpossibilities (in a sort of zero sum game). This gridlocked opposition is a product of the modernisttradition still dominant today in law and in economics. It hyd...
Individual selfishness is the central assumption underpinning Hardin’s analysis. the centralassumption underpinning Hardin’s analysis. Only the crude application of the model of homooeconomicus, an individual maximizer of short-time utility, explains the results (and academicsuccess) of the so-called “tragedy of the commons.” In fact, the well know...
Elinor Ostrom and her team of social scientists successfully demonstrated through an overwhelmingamount of empirical evidence that cooperative property arrangements are in fact successful andindividuals do not destroy their common pool resources. Ostrom's work undeniably marks a criticalturning point in economic theory. It refuted Hardin’s tragedy ...
Interestingly enough the counter-hegemonic narrative to the cornerstone of individualism, originatedin the sciences. Holistic attitudes, based on the qualitative mapping of relationships, rather than onquantitative measurements and the positivistic reductionism of Galileo, Descartes, and Newton,also eventually emerged in the natural sciences throug...
Today we can see from examples all around us, from global warming to the economic collapse, thatthe politically recessive but philosophically more sophisticated holistic paradigm offers us afundamental and necessary shift in the perception of reality. In this context the commons can offer aninstitutional setting reflexive of the need to reject the ...
Even today, despite the dramatic crisis of 2008, when the free market ideology has shown itscatastrophic nature, State intervention dubbed Keynesian policy, has been utilized to transfermassive amounts of public money to the private sector. The logic of plunder shared by both theprivate and the state sector could not be more open. It should be clea...
Introduction. Ethan Roland & Gregory Landua: "These eight forms of capital help us map our understanding of the world. The map clarifies that money is not the only form of capital flowing around and through us. This map expands the concepts of wealth (and poverty) to include the ‘valuable resources’ of personal connections, natural ...
Bio. "Asst. Prof. Surat Horachaikul is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University and Director of the School for Wellbeing Studies and Research. He has master degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and from London Guildhall University. His recent ...
Discussion. The Public-Commons Partnership is a concept proposed by Tommaso Fattori, Italian commons activist, to replace the concepts of: - public-private partnership and public-public partnership. Tommaso Fattori: "The field of Commons can be for the most part identified with a public but not-state arena, in which the actions of the ...
2011年11月7日 · When Milosevic refused to concede defeat to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, Otpor's example of disciplined nonviolence, along with its masses of activists, were crucial in convincing Serbia's security forces to defy Milosevic's orders to shoot at the protesters. On Oct. 7, the embattled president resigned. The unthinkable had happened.
