Kommodifizierung one calls the process of the commercialization and/or "„to the commodity becoming "“>. With the Kommodifizierung accompanies "„the privatisation "“from things and goods.

Use

Mainly in the information science as well as in the society science used term has in each case an easily different meaning.

Information science

In the information science Kommodifizierung means the view of information objects as goods, of which information products can be made, for whose use fees raised and which can be acted on information markets; here Kommodifizierung is used to a large extent synonymously for the term of the Venterisierung coined/shaped by Rainer Kuhlen and criticized then the "“perfected procedure of the controlled, private appropriation of knowledge"” (Kuhlen 2002).

Society science

In the social sciences the term Kommodifizierung goes back on the restaurant historian Karl Polanyi. The central concern when its investigation the "“Great transformation"” (large transformation) in England, thus the change of the market to a entbetteten market company, embedded into the society, were the negative effects of the Kommodifizierung. With the adjustment of all factors of production such as soil, work and money to "„the pure market regime "“- the so-called Kommodifizierung - come it to a social disintegration and to the separation of human values by a materialistic individualism (Konsumgesellschaft).

Nowadays in the course of the criticism one is denounced implicitly again general-gene-waited "„neoliberaler concepts "“the Kommodifizierung. The recently increasing expansion "„of the market logic "“on ranges such as health or social safety device (= Kommodifizierung of these ranges) leads "“of the social one to one "„.

Literature

• Kuhlen, Rainer: Information market. Chances and risks of the commercialization of knowledge. Writings for the information science of volume. 15. , Konstanz: University University of Konstanz (UVK), 1995. (ISBN 3-879-40528-X)
• Kuhlen, Rainer: '' Napsterisierung and Venterisierung. Components to a political economics of the knowledge. '' (pdf) in: Prokla No. 126, 2002.
• Karl Polanyi: The Great transformation, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1978. (ISBN 3-518-27860-6)

See also

• Venterisierung, Napsterisierung, information economics, commercialization, privatisation, liberalisation, globalization, culture capitalism
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