Peer Production and Collective Action

Over the last decade, a number of progressive social movements around world have embraced peer production principles such as collaboration, co-production, and self-organization. This chapter investigates consequences for protest, looking at how reshuffles “remediates” change activism today. First, it traces historical trajectory has come to permeate three decades, linking distinct approaches organizing technological innovation. Second, reflects on so-called affordances (and constraints) digital infrastructure their role in fostering specific modes creativity convergence apt support protest actors. Third, explores types movements, namely cultural norm change, collective identity, commons. The then examines tensions that might emerge process embedding mechanisms values instances action, namely: individual vs. engagements, networks movement organizations, self-organized commercial infrastructure.