UID:
almahu_9949852576602882
Format:
1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:
9781835496022
Series Statement:
Research in the sociology of organizations ; 89
Content:
Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation. Defining Web3 presents the state of the art in socio-cultural and economic research from leading scholars in the field of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Exploring Web3 as a 'crypto-carnival,' the papers in this collection take the carnival as their central motif and organising frame to mirror how Web3 is permeated by the carnivalesque, with its games, play, politics, anarchy, dissimulation, humour, vulgarity, excessive consumption, and counter-cultural aesthetics. Walking the line between both enthusiasts and critics, the authors analyse the token economy's messy complications, excesses, dangers, and tensions, and how they might play out for the future of the Internet. Bringing together researchers, artists, and organisational designers to explore Web3's potential as a progressive platform for creative social coordination, this uniquely experimental volume tackles the deceptively simple question, 'What is Web3?' and imagines where it might take us next.
Note:
Chapter 1. Defining Web3: A Guide to the New Cultural Economy / Quinn DuPont, Donncha Kavanagh and Paul Dylan-Ennis -- Part 1: Big Tent -- Chapter 2. Web3 is the opportunity we have had all along: Innovation Amnesia and Economic Democracy / Nathan Schneider -- Chapter 3. Entering the Field of Web3: 'Infrastructuring' and how to do it / Kelsie Nabben -- Chapter 4. Business without firms. A planetary design language for DAOs / Bernhard Resch -- Chapter 5. A Progressive Web3: From Social Coproduction to Digital Polycentric Governance / Quinn DuPont -- Chapter 6. Institutional Isomorphism in Web3: Same same but different? / Tara Merk and Rolf Hoefer -- Chapter 7. Hash, Bash, Cash: How Change Happens in Decentralised Web3 Cultures / Paul Dylan-Ennis -- Part 2: Vaudeville -- Chapter 8. Political Economy of the Crypto-Art Craze / Geert Lovink -- Chapter 9. When Digital Carnival? Distributed Control of the Metaverse Asset Layer to Enable Creative Digital Expression to Flourish / Eric Alston -- Chapter 10. Web3 as decentralization theater? A framework for envisioning decentralization strategically / JP Vergne -- Chapter 11. The Rise of Blockchain Egregores / Primavera de Filippi, Morshed Mannan, and Wessel Reijers -- Chapter 12. Crypto Personalities as Carnivalesque Jesters / Alesha Serada -- Chapter 13. Web3: The gentrified carnival? / Donncha Kavanagh -- Part 3: Dare Devils -- Chapter 14. The Gambler / Sandra Faustino -- Chapter 15. Web3 and the amazing Computable Economy / Jason Potts -- Chapter 16. Trying to Sell the Crow Queen in Web3: On the resistance of video gamers to cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and their financial logic / Diane-Laure Arjaliès and Samuel Compain-Eglin -- Chapter 17. Blockchain and Web3: Mirrors, "Jouissance" and Social and Personal Identity Formation / Victoria Lemieux -- Chapter 18. Blow That Mausoleum Down / Bill Maurer -- Chapter 19. Immediate Gratuitousness / Finn Brunton.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781835496015
Additional Edition:
PDF version: ISBN 9781835496008
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X202489
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