Defining Web3

A Guide to the New Cultural Economy

AvQuinn DuPont,Quinn DuPont

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781835496015

Utforska kategorier

Organisationsteori inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Quinn DuPont is an information scientist with subject matter expertise in cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and cybersecurity. For over a decade, he has held research and development positions at top global universities, startups, and enterprises.Donncha Kavanagh is Full Professor of Information and Organisation at University College Dublin. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge and technology, the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing, play, creativity, and (digital) money.Paul Dylan-Ennis is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the College of Business, University College Dublin, as well as a CoinDesk columnist. His research focuses on Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Innehållsförteckning

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 AlstonChapter 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