Digitisation is also advancing in the cultural sector. How cultural assets and heritage are made available and accessible on the web is not a simple question. Should historical sources, images and texts be made freely accessible? And how could this be realised? Under what conditions can one speak of a digital cultural commons?
Our guest Dr. Jörg Lehmann deals with these questions. And that’s what Silke Offergeld and Dr. Matthias Begenat talk about with him in #CAISzeit.
Dr Jörg Lehmann is a research assistant at the Romance Studies Department at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and is active in the field of digital humanities . He was a fellow at CAIS from October 2021 to March 2022. In his CAIS project, Dr Jörg Lehmann conducted research under the title “the tragedy of the cultural commons”. What he understands by the cultural commons and what the tragedy in the digital space is, he explains to us in #CAISzeit.
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Tips for further reading:
Research Report on the CAIS-Project:
- Lehmann, J. (2022, May). The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons. Available at: https://zenodo.org/record/6513596#.YoIfQVTP02w
The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons:
- Hardin, G. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science, 162(3859), 1243-1248. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.162.3859.1243
- Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J., Meinzen-Dick, R., Moor, T. D., Jackson, M. O., Gjerde, K. M., Harden-Davies, H., Frischmann, B. M., Madison, M. J., Strandburg, K. J., McLean, A. R. & Dye, C. (2018). Tragedy revisited. Science. 362(6420), 1236-1241. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.aaw0911
- Benkler, Y. (2008). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300127232
The knowledge commons framework:
- Frischmann, B., Madison, M. & Standburg, K. (2014). Governing Knowledge Commons, in: Frischmann, B., Madison, M. & Standburg, K. (eds.), Governing Knowledge Commons. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-43. https://doi.org/doi:1093/acprof:oso/9780199972036.001.0001
- Frischmann, B., Sanfilippo, M. & Standburg, K. (2018). Privacy as Commons: Case Evaluation Through the Governing Knowledge Commons Framework. Journal of Information Policy, 8 (2018), 116-166. https://doi.org/doi:10.5325/jinfopoli.8.2018.0116.
- Ostrom, E., Calvert, R. & Eggertsson, T. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for collective Action. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807763
Netzpolitik.org on the keywords “digital commons”, “digital public domain” & “cultural flat rate”.
- Fanta, A. (2022). Breakthrough – EU agrees on digital services law. Available at: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/durchbruch-eu-einigt-sich-auf-digitale-dienste-gesetz/
- Malik, S. (2022). Series on Digital Colonialism – How Meta aims to dominate India’s agriculture sector. Available at: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/series-on-digital-colonialism-how-meta-aims-to-dominate-indias-agriculture-sector/
- Columbus, S. (2010). 10 theses of the music industry against the culture flat rate. Available at: https://netzpolitik.org/2010/10-thesen-der-musikindustrie-gegen-die-kulturflatrate/
CommonsBlog. Lost and Found from the Commons Meadow. Available at: https://commons.blog
Morozov, E. (2022). Critique of the techno-feudal reason. New Left Review, 133/134. Available at: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
