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Free Software Beyond Radical Politics: Negotiations of Creative and Craft Autonomy in Digital Visual Media Production
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Abstract Free software development and the technological practices of hackers have been broadly recognised as fundamental for the formation of political cultures that foster democracy in the digital mediascape. This article explores the role of free software in the practices of digital artists, animators and... mehr
Free software development and the technological practices of hackers have been broadly recognised as fundamental for the formation of political cultures that foster democracy in the digital mediascape. This article explores the role of free software in the practices of digital artists, animators and technicians who work in various roles for the contemporary digital visual media industries. Rather than discussing it as a model of organising work, the study conceives free software as a production tool and shows how it becomes a locus of politics about finding material security in flexible capitalism. This politics is ultimately contradictory in that it extends creative and craft autonomy of digital artists but does not mobilise a critical project. Instead, it nurtures further precarious labour. Empirically, the article draws on ethnographically collected material from the media practices of digital artists and programmers who engage with two popular free software production tools, Blender and Synfig.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Digitale Medien; Medienwirtschaft; Programmierung; Kunst; virtuelle Realität; Software; Kapitalismus; Postfordismus; Flexibilität; Kreativität; Autonomie
Klassifikation
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen
Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Blender; craft autonomy; F/OSS; media tools; material politics; media industries; open source software; Synfig
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 43-52
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 4 (2016) 4
Heftthema
Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)