Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue

摘要: COMMONS-BASED peer production is a socio-economic system of that emerging in the digitally networked environment. Facilitated by technical infrastructure Internet, hallmark this socio-technical collaboration among large groups individuals, sometimes order tens or even hundreds thousands, who cooperate effectively to provide information, knowledge cultural goods without relying on either market pricing managerial hierarchies coordinate their common enterprise. While there are many practical reasons try understand novel has produced some finest software, fastest supercomputer and best web-based directories news sites, here we focus ethical, rather than functional dimension. What does it mean ethical terms individuals can find themselves cooperating productively with strangers acquaintances scope never before seen? How might affect, at least enable, human action affection, how would these effects possibilities affect our capacities be virtuous beings? We suggest emergence offers an opportunity for more people engage practices permit them exhibit experience behavior. posit: (a) society provides opportunities behavior one conducive individuals; (b) practice effective may lead adopting virtues as own, attributes what they see self-definition. The central thesis paper systems commons-based offer not only remarkable medium various Journal Political Philosophy: Volume 14, Number 4, 2006, pp. 394–419