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Free Software Beyond Radical Politics: Negotiations of Creative and Craft Autonomy in Digital Visual Media Production

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dc.contributor.authorVelkova, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-02T10:40:14Z
dc.date.available2017-10-02T10:40:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn2183-2439
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/53842
dc.description.abstractFree 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.en
dc.languageen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcPublizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesende
dc.subject.ddcNews media, journalism, publishingen
dc.subject.otherBlender; craft autonomy; F/OSS; media tools; material politics; media industries; open source software; Synfig
dc.titleFree Software Beyond Radical Politics: Negotiations of Creative and Craft Autonomy in Digital Visual Media Production
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dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalMedia and Communication
dc.source.volume4
dc.publisher.countryMISC
dc.source.issue4
dc.subject.classozinteraktive, elektronische Mediende
dc.subject.classozInteractive, electronic Mediaen
dc.subject.classozIndustrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungende
dc.subject.classozSociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relationsen
dc.subject.classozWissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologiede
dc.subject.classozSociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technologyen
dc.subject.thesozDigitale Mediende
dc.subject.thesozdigital mediaen
dc.subject.thesozMedienwirtschaftde
dc.subject.thesozmedia industryen
dc.subject.thesozProgrammierungde
dc.subject.thesozprogrammingen
dc.subject.thesozKunstde
dc.subject.thesozarten
dc.subject.thesozvirtuelle Realitätde
dc.subject.thesozvirtual realityen
dc.subject.thesozSoftwarede
dc.subject.thesozsoftwareen
dc.subject.thesozKapitalismusde
dc.subject.thesozcapitalismen
dc.subject.thesozPostfordismusde
dc.subject.thesozpost-Fordismen
dc.subject.thesozFlexibilitätde
dc.subject.thesozflexibilityen
dc.subject.thesozKreativitätde
dc.subject.thesozcreativityen
dc.subject.thesozAutonomiede
dc.subject.thesozautonomyen
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0de
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution 4.0en
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dc.source.pageinfo43-52
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dc.source.issuetopicPolitical Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i4.693
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