Three Stages of Freedom
Table
| Characteristics | Media | Education | |
| Closed |
Exchange value Vehicle and content controlled Commoditization "Crowdsourcsing |
Media as corporate business Economic utility, control of content (business logic) Consumers |
Education as an ideological state apparatus Economic utility, control of content (educational policy) Learning as having Prolonged exchange value of well-educated citizens |
| First stage of freedom |
Economic Utility, limited collaboration Market sphere, entrepreneurship, multicultural capitalism, liberal communism Limited autonomy ofcontent "Sharing" |
Web 2.0 YouTube, Google, CitizenTV, Adbusters, Yahoo Answers, Knol ... "Produsers" |
Educational content business Teachers and students as commodifed semi-objects (knowledge creators, consumers)
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| Double-free |
Use value/value in itself Full autonomy of content, limited autonomy of vehicle "Commonist"(Bauwens) |
Media as collaboration Wikis, Linux, P2P "Access to the Internet power of the soviets"
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Education as collaboration Freire, Selbstentfaltung Learning as being Refective uncertainty |
| Triple-free |
Value inseparable from the world, Aristotelian finalities Full autonomy of content and vehicle Promoting other than materially-driven life forms "Communist" |
Immediate media practices Wikipedia ecological autonomy control of resources "Electricity access to the Internet power of the soviets" Tosltoy farm (Gandhi) |
"Deschooling society"(Illich) Learning by doing, native skills Students and teachers as human beings, "life-long learners" in an existential sense Education as commons |