TY - JOUR AU - Halabi, Ammar AU - Zimmermann, Basile AU - Courant, Michèle PY - 2017/12/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Conflict in a digital place JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 22 IS - 12 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v22i12.8043 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8043 SP - AB - <p>This paper discusses the issue of conflict over the Internet. It focuses on situations where disagreements between users connect with specific choices in the design of a digital infrastructure, and it argues that engagement in design activities can be used as a tool to analyse and probe such issues. It presents an ethnographic study of VOCI, a community of students based in Syria that witnessed a major conflict between its core members during the early 2010s. This conflict evolved around issues of control and governance, and eventually translated into a shared concern of how access and ownership of digital places are configured. This article introduces the design of Modus, a platform for shared proprietary rights over the Internet, as an alternative way to manage digital ownership.</p> ER -