Transfer communities and custom of gift. Well-bit and economy of sharing in cyberspace Cover Image

Wspólnoty transferu a obyczaj daru. Dobrobit i gospodarka współdzielenia w cyberprzestrzeni
Transfer communities and custom of gift. Well-bit and economy of sharing in cyberspace

Author(s): Roman Bromboszcz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Carl Schmitt; value; philosophy of values; logic of values; tyranny of values; Max Weber; freedom from values;

Summary/Abstract: The text presents an analysis of cyberspace in aspects of information exchange and file sharing. There are taken into consideration internet communities which have an aim to collecting and sharing, data transferring in the shape of audio tracks, video and texts. There are described services and communities of transfer and furthermore an regulative idea of well-bit. Internet communities are compared to primitive cultures where a crucial element of custom become to be gift. Especially scrutinize is a term „economy of gift” and the thesis about reestablishing a custom of gift in the frame of collective intelligences. Important elements of investigation on values which appear in circulation by means of information are an interwoven of values and classification of values.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 153-172
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish