Free and open hardware: A Critical and thematic analysisof free and open hardware communities reprap and arduino
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- Tez No: 759127
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- Tez Türü: Doktora
- Konular: Bilim ve Teknoloji, İletişim Bilimleri, Science and Technology, Communication Sciences
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- Yıl: 2021
- Dil: İngilizce
- Üniversite: University of Sussex
- Enstitü: Yurtdışı Enstitü
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- Sayfa Sayısı: 214
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This thesis explores the issue of capitalist exploitation on digital media where free time and creativity are fundamental elements in the production of digital goods. The thesis particularly focuses on free open source hardware communities, in which hackers give up a considerable amount of free or leisure time and creativity to produce open technology. Hardware hacking is a relatively new model designing and assembling hardware based on commons-based peer production (CBPP). In this research, I examine how free time and creativity can be exploited in open source communities in favour of corporations benefiting from community wealth, and how free or leisure time turns into a regime of“hyper-exploitation”on which capital is increasingly accumulated. It is hyper-exploitation as producers in CBPP are not paid while workers can get wages in return to their labour (Ritzer, 2014). I focus on two Free Open Source Hardware (FOSHW) projects: RepRap and Arduino as example cases in this thesis. Discussions on the RepRap and Arduino mailing lists and the data coming from interviews are used for analysis. I explore how free time and creativity of volunteers are exploited in FOSHW communities and how hackers react to capitalist exploitation. This thesis shows that hackers have different motivations and aims in RepRap and Arduino communities. The discussions on the issue of open source, the issue of self-replicating, the issue of customisation, fun in the RepRap community and the issue of Arduino clones provide us a basis for analysing the logic of hyper-exploitation based on the commercialisation of open hardware goods and voluntary labour that plays a key role in the production and distribution of software and design. In order to lay the foundations for further discussion, I introduce a set of main concepts that play an important role in the analysis of capitalist exploitation in Free Open Source Hardware (FOSHW) communities. These concepts contain free time, creativity, capitalist exploitation, democracy, hacker, open source communities, collaboration, work, free labour and fun. In this thesis, I also discuss how the line Page 4 between free time and work time is blurred and the production of open source software and design is seen as a part of a free time activity. This thesis shows that free time and activity of volunteers are exploited by the companies and the term“fun”may disguise capitalist exploitation, in which the line between leisure time and work time is not clear. Creative activities taking place in free time create value appropriated by companies (see Kostakis and Bauwens, 2014). Even though hackers have fun when developing software and design, the efforts and creativity of hackers can be productive labour and can turn into capital in the market. The collaborative relationship between the firms and open source communities enable capitalists to make a profit from peer production. I will discuss this issue in more detail in the thesis. The story of MakerBot in Chapter 5 and the issue of Arduino trademark in Chapter 6 provide us with important information to deeply discuss the hyper-exploitation of voluntary labour. I will deeply unpack the concept of hyper-exploitation in Chapter 2. Open source communities, on the one side, provide humans to participate in the production of open technology. This can be also seen as the democratisation of production. Voluntary labour, on the other hand, may be appropriated by firms. In this thesis, I explore this contradiction in FOSHW communities. In this research, I undertake interviews and collect data from the RepRap and Arduino mailing lists. I apply corpus text analysis and thematic analysis for analysing of the data coming from the mailing lists and interviews. Two different empirical cases are used in the following research. Firstly, Replicating Rapid Prototyper (RepRap), is chosen to understand the production and manufacturing of free-open-source 3D printers. RepRap is also known as a self-replicating machine which produces most of its own components. Secondly, Arduino, itself a low-power open-source single-board computer is chosen as an empirical case.
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