Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism

Arwid Lund is Lecturer at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. He holds a research fellowship at Westminster Institute of Advanced Studies, UK and is author of three books in Swedish.

• 1 Introduction.- 2. Background: Encyclopaedias and the digital revolution.- 3. Wikipedia.- 4.The outside of cognitive capitalism understood through ideology analysis.- 5. Wikipedians’ views on their activities.-6. Complement or alternative to the commons’ outside?.- 7. The ideological formations take shape.