Defining Web3
A Guide to the New Cultural Economy
Published on 1. July 2024
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-83549-601-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83549-601-5 (9781835496015)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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 Arjalies 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
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 Arjalies 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