Abstract
Wittel and Bachman explore solidarity in the field of the digital commons. In particular, they focus on two flagship projects of the digital commons, on the knowledge commons represented by Wikipedia and on the software commons represented by the open-source software movement. The main result of this chapter is surprising. They argue that the digital commons is a rather problematic concept as the practice of commoning and working together is often not fully realised in these digital spaces. For this reason, examples of solidarity in the digital commons are hard to find.
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