(An/)archival commons: Digital media and contemporary social movements. Issue 1 (1st April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: d'Urbano, Paolo
• Is Part Of: Journal of alternative and community media. Volume 5:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 43
• Publication Date: 2020-04-01
• Subjects: Alternative mass media -- Periodicals; Local mass media -- Periodicals; 302.23
• DOI: 10.1386/joacm_00073_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2206-5857

Abstract

Taking as its point of departure a dialectical relation between capitalist enclosure of the commons and forces trying to prevent the commons from being enclosed, the archive can be deployed as a useful theoretical concept to identify the key institution at the heart of both commodifying and communing processes. The article first discusses existing literature on primitive accumulation and commons, then moves on to elaborate on the archive and concludes with an overview of contemporary contentious online practices enacted by communities, users and social movements.