ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 summarizes the book by identifying six guidelines for critical media and information studies. It also outlines qualities of a commons-based Internet. It is argued that the realization of a commons-based Internet is not a mere technological task but requires an economic and societal context that stresses the importance of the commons and co-operation. The multitude lacks the control of the commons of society, and all its members lack the actual experience of affluence. The contemporary proletariat, the multitude, is connected by its poverty, its position in the production of the commons, by the confrontation with the expropriation and exploitation of the commons, as well as the lack of affluence, and the lack of control of the commons. The proletariat constantly creates and recreates spaces of common experience, such as the Internet, educational institutions, knowledge spaces, culture and so on, through their practices. These spaces and experiences are appropriated and thereby expropriated and exploited by capital. The establishment of a commons-based Internet in a commons-based society can only be achieved by political struggles.
