Using Digital Art to make the Tension beetween Capital and Commons Transparent. Innovation in shaping knowledge of Internet business practices as a form of cultural knowledge\ud

This paper examines a digital art performance by Ubermorgen.com called Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI.org) as an example of the tensions between Capital and the public commons. Using notions of transparency and knowledge as a form of innovation rooted in Nonaka’s Knowledge Management theory, it examines the ways in which knowledge about how Google uses the Internet is made explicit through the art performance. Finally, it discusses the implications for transparency in Internet business through both the act of GWEI expanding audiences for understanding Internet based revenue generation models and using artifacts rooted cultural contexts in order to challenge the assumptions inherent in the current configuration of Capital and the public commons. It ends with calling into question the role of Google as a form of “Cultureware,” dependent on the\ud public commons, yet profiting from it in the realm of the Capital

Intermingling AI and IoT Affordances: The expansion of social opportunities for service users and providers

This commentary looks at prediction as a technical affordance of AI, reflecting on how it can impact our framing of cybernized services. This reframing enables researchers to consider effects of intermingling the social and technology in processes of co-creation of value and co-destruction for cybernized services

Portrait of a Contender: Salome Abungy

I first met Salome in 1998, when she and I both were grad students at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities..

Connecting Corporate and Consumer Social Responsibility Through Social Media Activism

To highlight aspects of activism obscured by a focus on legitimacy and ideology, this article argues that shifting focus from legitimacy and ideology to identity, problem-solving and dialogue is needed to understand emerging forms of social media native activism that connects consumer social responsibility (CnSR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Taking this view as a basis for social activism offers a valuable perspective for understanding some emergent forms of social media activism toward business. Two cases of social media native activist organizations working to create movements are examined from this problem-solving and dialogue-based perspective—Carrotmob and the GoodGuide. These cases represent examples of a post-dialectic frame for understanding how social media can affect approaches to activism