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what they tell us in terms of balancing normative principles with what =
actually happen in experiences in practices?

Finally, this week (until Sunday Oct 25th) I am going to be at Boston =
(attending a workshop on free culture research at the Berkman center). I =
would be very happy to meet other people working on these issues that =
also happen to be at Boston.
Have a nice day! In solidarity! Mayo

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Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info
European University Institute - Phd Candidate
School of information Berkeley Visiting researcher
Phone Italy: 0039-3345440747 or 0039-0558409982
Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748
E-mail: mayo.fuster at eui.eu
Skype: mayoneti
Identi.ca: Mayo

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Hello! Hola! 
 
Here my short introduction to the e-list. Looking forward a fruitful =
discussion on the e-list. 
 
I am Mayo Fuster Morell from Barcelona living in Florence. But this week =
at Boston. 
 
I am doing a doctoral research on the &#147;Governance of online =
creation communities for the building of digital commons&#148; (at the =
European University Institute &#150; Florence). I analyzed the role of =
providers of platforms of participation and extracted several governance =
models according the type of provider and the relationship established =
between the providers and the community of participants/users (in terms =
of distribution of functions, ownership and authority). Finally, I try =
to explain how the model of providers affect the community growth and =
the type of cooperation generated. I did a large-N statistical analysis =
and case study comparison. My case studies comparison were based on a =
comercial service-oriented case (Yahoo for Flickr), a self-provision =
case (Social forums memory project) and an hybrid (partly open party =
close) case (Wikimedia Foundation for Wikipedia). More info on the =
research at www.onlinecreation.info 
 
Then I am part of Networked-Politics.info a collaborative research on =
new forms of political organizing and I am organizer of the First =
international forum on free culture and knowledge which will take place =
at Barcelona at the end of this month (Oct 29 to Niv 1 2009 <A =
HREF=3D"http://www.fcforum.net">http://www.fcforum.net</A>). The Forum =
congregates active organizations and individuals to discuss and action =
organize. The transversal working lines of the Forum program are: =
Organizational logic and political implications of free culture; Legal =
perspectives and users's access; Education and knwoledge management; =
Economies, New p2p models and sustainable distribution; and Free =
solfware and technical infrastructure. 
 
On the Playground and Factory conference issue, I tend to think that the =
appropriation of value generated collectively at participative platforms =
and the obtainance of profit benefits from by private companies is an =
important question that is not present at the &#147;mainstream&#148; =
discourse although it is a very important part of the picture. In this =
regard, further analyse on how this happen and how to reverse it (as the =
conference on Playground and Factory propose to do) is an important =
question. But to build a discourse that reduced the phenomenon of =
participative platforms to the exploitation (0.1) point as a response is =
not useful. I think we need to integrate the analysis with other aspects =
(such as, the reduce of the role of intermediators, the major =
empowerment of users/participants due to an increase of dependency on =
them in their role of producers, etc) and to direct the discussion =
towards what forms would be an appropriate one. In other words: What =
governance forms of collaboration online (in terms of legal bodies, =
ownership solutions, organizational principles etc) would not favor =
private appropriation of value? Or what would be a (sustainable and =
trustable outside our networks) social economy alternative to Facebook? =