Technology and the Common Good : : The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society / / Allen Batteau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Batteau, Allen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Observations --; Introduction Cultures and Countercultures of Technology --; Chapter 1 Worlds without Technology --; Chapter 2 Goods, and the Common Good, in a Liberal Society --; Chapter 3 Technology and the Commons --; Chapter 4 Beyond the Traditional Commons --; Chapter 5 Public Goods and Institutions in Cyberspace --; Chapter 6 Democratic Vistas --; Chapter 7 Building Institutions for a Technological World --; Conclusion Reclaiming the Commons --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800735279; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800735279
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Allen Batteau.

Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology. He further argues that as the common good is undermined by different interests, it should be possible to reclaim technology, if the members of the society conclude that they have something in common.