W5.1 Free-culture movement -LUAN QIANYUE

 1.Summary

The Free Culture Movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content using the Internet and other forms of media. "Free culture is a radical approach to empowering those who lack representation and power through media and technology." "The mission of the Free Culture Foundation is to end the suppression of media, ideas and technology by private ownership." The Free Culture Movement is extremely important for the development of culture, research, teaching and learning, and the generation of new and innovative ideas and creations.

2. Interesting point

Creative Commons (CC) is an internationally active nonprofit organization that provides free licenses for creators to use their works when they are made available to the public. These licenses help creators grant others permission to use their works in advance under certain conditions.

The free culture movement is a kind of knowledge sharing, but knowledge sharing is actually equivalent to the loss of competition in the market economy. Every newly developed technology or theory is shared to all mankind in a short period of time, and once knowledge is shared, it takes away a great incentive for people to create new knowledge. Some people may think they want to develop new technologies for the whole human civilization, but most of them still act for their own personal interests.

3. Discussion point

Why is knowledge sharing difficult to achieve, and what are the obstacles to knowledge sharing?




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  1. 정담문March 28, 2023 at 11:01 PM

    The obstacles to knowledge sharing mainly come from three aspects: knowledge owner, knowledge demander and knowledge itself.
    1. Obstacles of knowledge owners: In terms of knowledge, many people hold the concept of "knowledge private", believing that knowledge is personal resources and wealth, and possessing it can put them in an advantageous position in competition, so as to obtain and maintain their own interests.
    Once personal knowledge is leaked, its corresponding dominant position will be lost and its own interests will be damaged.
    It is based on this belief that knowledge owners are naturally reluctant to share knowledge with others.
    In practice, knowledge sharing has certain risks, the most important of which may be the leakage of core technology and the loss of key knowledge personnel, which will lead to a series of serious consequences, such as the decline of competitive advantage, knowledge brand dilution, etc. Out of fear of such risks, knowledge owners tend not to actively participate in knowledge sharing activities.
    2. Obstacles for knowledge demanders:
    Even if knowledge owners are willing to share knowledge, the best state of knowledge sharing may not be achieved. On the one hand, most knowledge demanders believe that receiving and learning knowledge requires a large amount of investment, including time, experience and even hard efforts, so they are not willing to invest in acquiring corresponding knowledge. On the other hand,
    People are used to clinging to their existing knowledge and being skeptical of others' new knowledge. People may be afraid of being considered ignorant and unwilling to receive new knowledge. People may also disdain to share knowledge in order to maintain authority or be too proud of themselves.
    3 Obstacles to knowledge itself: the object of knowledge sharing is knowledge, and the obstacles to knowledge sharing are mainly manifested in tacit knowledge, which is easy to form knowledge monopoly. Tacit knowledge exists in the latent consciousness of tacit knowledge owners. Due to its ineffability, it is not easy to be imitated, copied and stolen by others, providing objective conditions for its monopoly.
    Tacit knowledge is also difficult to teach and learn, and is highly personal.
    Tacit knowledge resides in the individual's mind and is difficult to collect and store.

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