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SUMMARY:Commons in Tension: On the hybrid governance of Wikipedia\, and ot
 her digital knowledge commons
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DESCRIPTION:Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay   Pierre Mounier\nThe College of Hu
 manities and the Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology are 
 pleased to invite you to the sixth session of Pierre Mounier’s monthly s
 eminar on Governing Digital Knowledge Infrastructures.\n\nWed. 30 Mar. 202
 2\, 2-4pm\, EPFL room INN 128 and Online\, registration compulsory (see be
 low)\n\nCommons in Tension: On the hybrid governance of Wikipedia\, and ot
 her digital knowledge commons\n\nIn 1990\, the American economist Elinor O
 strom proposed a novel take on the collective administration of common goo
 ds understood as natural or cultural resources shared by a community of st
 akeholders with equal interests. Neither private nor public\, the commons 
 require specific forms of governance that involve stakeholders in the maki
 ng\, enforcing\, and debating the regulations that frame their use. Theref
 ore\, commons are not solely a particular type of good but generate specif
 ic forms of collective action that hold together their communities.\n\n 
        Knowledge\, particularly in a digital context\, can be under
 stood as a non-rival cultural commons\, thereby raising the issue of its p
 roduction\, administration\, and protection. The birth and development of 
 Wikipedia in the 2000s and 2010s is the paradigmatic example of a digital 
 knowledge infrastructure whose self-organized community ensures users acce
 ss to an encyclopedic commons. However\, beyond rhetorics of openness\, ho
 rizontality\, adhocracy\, transparency\, and collaboration\, studies have 
 shown how Wikipedia is an ambivalent object\, oscillating between “inclu
 sionism” and “deletionism”\, between forceful principles and the ren
 egotiation of rules\, between “invisibilized” ideological stances (Tka
 cz)\, or in a “dialectical tension” between regulation and involvement
  (Joubert). The Wikipedia “miracle” (Cardon) would thrive on contradic
 tions of all kinds.\n\n        Taking Wikipedia as a starting case
  study–i.e.\, one possible instantiation of knowledge as commons–we wi
 ll discuss with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay (director of the Centre Internet
  et Société) the legal\, social\, epistemological\, and ideological issu
 es raised by the governance of the commons. Extending to other digital inf
 rastructure beyond Wikipedia\, we will also pay attention to other forms o
 f knowledge production involving such governance models of the commons–a
 lbeit in more subtle and hybrid ways–and whether “structuring tensions
 ” are indeed a sustainable form of governance in a digital context.\n\nW
 ed. 30 March 2022\, 2-4pm CET\nHybrid setup: EPFL\, INN 128 (registration 
 compulsory here) and online (email simon.dumasprimbault@epfl.ch to get the
  Zoom link)\n\nReferences:\n\n	Joubert\, L. (2019). “Le parfait wikipéd
 ien. Réglementation de l’écriture et engagement des novices dans un co
 mmun de la connaissance (2000-2018)\,” Le Mouvement Social 268\, p. 45-6
 0. https://doi.org/10.3917/lms.268.0045 (Eng. trans. available on demand)\
 n	Dulong de Rosnay\, M. and Stalder\, F. (2020). “Digital commons\,” I
 nternet Policy Review 9(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2020.4.1530\n	Dulong 
 de Rosnay\, M. (2021) “Open Access Models\, Pirate Libraries and Advocac
 y Repertoires: Policy Options for Academics to Construct and Govern Knowle
 dge Commons\,” Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 16(1)\, p
 .46-64. https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.913 \n
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