PETERS ON THE NEW ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE

ABSTRACT.Peters focuses on the development of the knowledge, learning and digital economies, the culture-bound nature of symbolic functions, and the ethic of participation, collaboration and file-sharing characterizing the rise of social media. Peters's analysis complements the growing literature on new transnational academic communities in global ecologies, the transformation of traditional modes of teaching and learning, and the marketization of futures.Keywords: participation, collaboration, knowledge, ecology, openness1. IntroductionPeters explains the development of a cybernetic informational capitalism, the rise of the neoliberal university, and the production of academic and its uses. Peters emphasizes the centrality of and information to the processes of the sign and the symbolic society, the advent of the Internet and user-generated cultures, and the relation between openness and creativity as part of a networked group.2. The Development of the Knowledge, Learning and Digital EconomiesPeters asserts that and education are social activities developed through language and communication within and across cultures, and their value is rooted in social relations. The is based on the facility with signs and symbolic analysis and manipulation, resting on the production and use of and innovation, and communication through the global medium of social exchange.It is clear from the foregoing that the production of new meanings is central to the process. Peters says that communities are strongly related to markets, networks and innovation, whereas futures in the world of business promote product innovation as the key driver for company competitiveness. In the information the effect of location is diminished. Human capital or competencies is the key component of value in the knowledge-based economy.1Peters and Besley state that and the value of are rooted in social relations, an analysis of the being one of social relations and knowledge practices. There is a strong relationship between the new information and communication technologies, and innovation and productivity growth.The upshot of our discussion is that information and can be shared, developed and modified, and grow through application. Peters and Besley put it that knowledge economy points to the economics of and information and of education, whereas knowledge society points to the concepts and rights of workers as citizens in the new economy. Knowledge is crucial for understanding questions concerning the development of both economies and societies.Cognitive capitalism provides a new platform that begins a line of argument that emphasizes the significance within contemporary 'third' capitalism (after mercantilism and industrialism) of a theory of expressive, affective and cognitive labor that sources the creativity of symbolic abstract info-capital in a set of immaterial processes. The notion of immaterial labor can also be wedded to forms of openness and in particular to open science and open education that signals new logics of the public harnessing social media and social labor processes. [...] The rests on the production and use of and innovation, and communication through electronic networks that have become the global medium of social exchange. In this new configuration the production of new meanings is central to the process and media or communication cultures once centered on literacy and printing, now are increasingly centered on the screen or image and the radical and dynamic concordance of image, text and sound.2Peters and Besley think that cultures are based on shared practices of epistemic communities. …