Posted by Dr. Bob on September 22, 2013, at 22:55:02
In reply to Re: the commons, posted by alexandra_k on September 21, 2013, at 23:33:24
> Ostrom won the Nobel prize already for looking at anthropological solutions to tragedy of commons.
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> I found "Managing the virtual commons: Cooperation and conflict in computer communities" - but I'm having trouble re-finding the internal content for the first chapter... Found this handy summary here:
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> http://cscw10.hciresearch.org/content/managing-virtual-commons-cooperation-and-conflict-computer-communities-1996What anthropological solutions did Ostrom find?
Thanks for sharing that link, I hadn't seen it before. Do their conclusions apply to Babble?
> > Babble is a remarkable institution which enables cooperation, however significant shortcomings remain.
> > Babble has a double edge: monitoring is easier, but sanctioning becomes more difficult: communication costs are lower, but defecting costs increases: it's easier to find people with similar interests and collaborate, but it is also easier to be disrupted by people who want to prevent collaboration;
> > "Babble may not need to resolve these problems, it may simply become a public space in cyberspace where the balance between order and autonomy is decided in favor of the latter."--
> You can send your criminals to Australia but ... Australians (now) aren't as criminal as they once were. Perhaps.
Becoming less criminal sounds like a good thing. How did that happen?
Bob
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