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- Golub, Koraljka, et al.
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Why Open Government Data? The Case of a Swedish Municipality
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Data and Information Science. - Beijing : Chinese Academy of Sciences. - 2096-157X .- 2543-683X. ; 6:1, s. 120-138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide modern local governments with potential use cases for their open data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making. The concrete context was that of the Växjö municipality located in southeastern Sweden.Design/methodology/approach: The methodology was two-fold: 1) a survey of potential end users (n=151) from a local university; and, 2) analysis of survey results using a theoretical model regarding local strategies for implementing open government data.Findings: Most datasets predicted to be useful were on: sustainability and environment; preschool and school; municipality and politics. The use context given is primarily research and development, informing policies and decision making; but also education, informing personal choices, informing citizens and creating services based on open data. Not the least, the need for educating target user groups on data literacy emerged. A tentative pattern comprising a technical perspective on open data and a social perspective on open government was identified.Research limitations: In line with available funding, the nature of the study was exploratory and implemented as an anonymous web-based survey of employees and students at the local university. Further research involving (qualitative) surveys with all stakeholders would allow for creating a more complete picture of the matter.Practical implications: The study determines potential use cases and use contexts for open government data, in order to help inform related future policies and decision-making.Originality/value: Modern local governments, and especially in Sweden, are faced with a challenge of how to make their data open, how to learn about which types of data will be most relevant for their end users and what will be different societal purposes. The paper contributes to knowledge that modern local governments can resort to when it comes to attitudes of local citizens to open government data in the context of an open government data perspective.
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- Lund, Arwid, 1968-, et al.
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Corporate capitalism's use of openness : profit for free?
- 2020
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book tackles the concept of openness (as in open source software, open access and free culture), from a critical political economy perspective to consider its encroachment by capitalist corporations, but also how it advances radical alternatives to cognitive capitalism. Drawing on four case studies, Corporate Capitalism’s Use of Openness will add to discussion on open source software, open access content platforms, open access publishing, and open university courses. These otherwise disparate cases share two fundamental features: informational capitalist corporations base their successful business models on unpaid productive activities, play, attention, knowledge and labour, and do so crucially by resorting to ideological uses of concepts such as “openness”, “communities” and “sharing”. The authors present potential solutions and alternative regulations to counter these exploitative and alienating business models, and to foster digital knowledge commons, ranging from co-ops and commons-based peer production to state agencies' platforms. Their research and findings will appeal to students, academics and activists around the world in fields such as sociology, economy, media and communication, library and information science, political sciences and technology studies.
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- Lund, Arwid, 1968-, et al.
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Digital Library Platforms’ Democracy Building Between Instrumental Education and Web 2.0 Sharing: A Swedish Case Study
- 2021
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Ingår i: tripleC. - : TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. - 1726-670X. ; 19:2, s. 392-423
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital platforms are a primary means of communication in society. Public libraries play an empowering role in these processes, strengthening citizens’ digital competences. This raises questions about what democratic processes the digital technology is made to enable. The study investigates how a Swedish Digital Library (DL) is envisioned and organised within a national digitalisation strategy. Qualitative methods are used, and a theoretical democracy framework is developed and used together with the concepts of education and Bildung in the analysis. Four empirical themes are identified. The analysis centres on tensions related to horizontality and hierarchy, and Bildung and sociality. The DL vision is dominated by a hierarchical and instrumental educational vision that connects to representative democracy. A subordinated social and pedagogical vision of inner motivational drives and partial forms of sharing, connected to deliberative and semi-participatory democracy forms, exists, mostly in the form of some cherry-picked Web 2.0 discourses.
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- Lund, Arwid, 1968-
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What kind of open science do we want?
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Openness and freedom are not the same thing. A freedom to act is something different than an openness for other actors’ actions. This is the fate of today’s open science built on an unrestricted openness. In an era characterized by academic capitalism open science means an openness especially for commercial influences supported by state authorities and research funds. Contrary to an unrestricted openness giving a dominant capitalist logic freedom to act on science, the open access, open data, and open code of open science, need to be understood as a public good with other, and carefully selected freedoms to act. These freedoms should empower robust collegial modes of (peer) producing science and limit commercial actors’ freedoms to act upon science.
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