From the article: "On television, President Obama spent a commercial-free hour
delivering his State of the Union speech. But on Twitter,
the nation’s biggest lobbying groups and corporations found a megaphone to
place ad money and promote their views." Read more
Showing posts with label new economic forms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new economic forms. Show all posts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Gartner: Social Business Efforts Largely Unsuccessful So Far
From the article: "Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the
most part, they're not getting much from them, according to analyst firm
Gartner.
By 2016, some 50% of enterprises "will have internal Facebook-like
social networks," and 30% of these will be considered to be as crucial as
email and telephones, a Gartner study announced on Tuesday states.
However, through 2015, 80% "of social business efforts will not achieve the intended benefits due to inadequate leadership and an overemphasis on technology," according to the report." Read more
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Kickstarter Launched 18,000 Projects in 2012; 17 Raised More than $1 Million
From the article: "Kickstarter reports
that its 2.2 million members pledged more than $319 million in 2012, up
221 percent from the year before. But more striking, perhaps, is the scale of
some of Kickstarter’s latest success stories. While no project had raised
$1 million at this time last year, 17 projects
passed that mark in 2012." Read more
U.S. Intelligence Community Forecasts Digital-Driven Future
From the article: "The digital technology revolution is transforming every
single business and industry around the world. But, beyond that, it is having a
transformational impact on economies and societies around the world, as
we transition from
the industrial society of
the past couple of centuries to a new kind of information-based society.
What will our world look like over the next couple of decades?" Read more
Thursday, January 10, 2013
The Theory of Crowd Capital
From the report: "We
are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage
dispersed populations through Information Systems (IS). Using the
knowledge-based view of the organization, this work conceptualizes a theory of Crowd
Capital to explain this phenomenon. Crowd Capital is a
heterogeneous knowledge resource generated by an organization, through its use
of Crowd
Capability, which is defined by the structure, content, and process by which an
organization engages with the dispersed knowledge of individuals –the Crowd.
Our work draws upon a diverse literature and builds upon numerous examples of
practitioner implementations to support our theorizing. We present a model of Crowd
Capital generation in organizations and discuss the implications of Crowd
Capital on organizational boundary and on IS research." Read more
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Does Peer Production Represent a Radical Break with Capitalism?
From the article: “While practically and empirically the
P2P mode of production is still under the sway of capitalism and to a great
extent dependent on it (buying computers and other materials and services from
it and using its infrastructure), its logic radically contradicts that of
capital. I described briefly above major aspects of P2P that accord to Marx’s
understanding of communism. All these aspects contradict the logic of capital.
Here I will show how the logic of P2P profoundly contradicts the capitalist
division of labour, because division of labour is the key component of any mode
of production. Let me emphasize that in P2P we have a distribution of labour
and not a division of labour (Weber, 2004). The P2P modes of cooperation and
the distribution of products make micro (within separate production units) and
macro (among different units) capitalist divisions of labor superfluous.” Read more