An introductory historical contextualization of online creation communities for the building of digital commons: The emergence of a free culture movement
Mayo Fuster Morell · 2011
Abstract. Online Creation Communities (OCCs) are a set of individ-uals that communicate, interact and collaborate; in several forms and degrees of participation which are eco-systemically integrated; mainly via a platform of participation on the Internet, on which they depend; and aiming at knowledge-making and sharing. The paper will first pro-vide an historical contextualization OCCs. Then, it will show how the development of OCCs is fuelled by and contributes to, the rise of a free culture movement defending and advocating the creation of digital com-mons, and provide an empirically grounded definition of free culture movement. The empirical analyses is based content analysis of 80 in-terviews to free culture practitioners, promoters and activists with an international background or rooted in Europe, USA and Latino-America and the content analysis of two seminar discussions. The data collection was developed from 2008 to 2010. 1