Art of Digital London: TheKnowledge: Digital Strategy in Culture (2012)
Filed under book | Tags: · archive, community media, gaming, knowledge, learning, online video, p2p, peer production, publishing, social media, sound recording, video
It is the knowledge of the use of digital tools in a cultural context from its practitioners that we have called peer learning. Building on the experience of practitioners, addressing the needs of cultural organisations across all sizes and covering opportunities for artistic development to operational areas of production, the authors have put a series of articles and research using the collaborative writing tool, a Wiki.
Publisher OpenMute, London, March 2012
ISBN 978-1-906496-68-5, 978-1-906496-69-2
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Comment (0)Andrew Famiglietti: Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians: The Political Economy and Cultural History of Wikipedia (2011)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · collaboration, floss, hacker culture, knowledge, knowledge production, open source, peer production, political economy, wikipedia
“This dissertation explores the political economy and cultural history of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It demonstrates how Wikipedia, an influential and popular site of knowledge production and distribution, was influenced by its heritage from the hacker communities of the late twentieth century. More specifically, Wikipedia was shaped by an ideal I call, “the cyborg individual,” which held that the production of knowledge was best entrusted to a widely distributed network of individual human subjects and individually owned computers.
I trace how this ideal emerged from hacker culture in response to anxieties hackers experienced due to their intimate relationships with machines. I go on to demonstrate how this ideal influenced how Wikipedia was understood both those involved in the early history of the site, and those writing about it. In particular, legal scholar Yochai Benkler seems to base his understanding of Wikipedia and its strengths on the cyborg individual ideal. Having established this, I then move on to show how the cyborg individual ideal misunderstands Wikipedia’s actual method of production. Most importantly, it overlooks the importance of how the boundaries drawn around communities and shared technological resources shape Wikipedia’s content. I then proceed to begin the process of building what I believe is a better way of understanding Wikipedia, by tracing how communities and shared resources shape the production of recent Wikipedia articles.”
Doctor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies / Communication, 2011
Dissertation Committee: V. Ekstrand, N. Patterson, R. Gajjala, D. McQuarie, D. Parry
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
290 pages
Critical Studies in Peer Production, Nr. 1: Mass Peer Activism (2011)
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, actor-network theory, commons, filesharing, internet, mass collaboration, networks, p2p, peer production, wikipedia
Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) is a new open access, online journal. Through the analysis of the forms, operations, and contradictions of peer producing communities in contemporary capitalist society, the journal aims to open up new perspectives on the implications of peer production for social change.
Issue 1 is divided in three sections:
– Research papers by Andersson and O’Neil
– Debate papers by Söderberg, Tkacz and O’Neil
– Reports by Niesyto & Tkacz and Dobusch & Thorne
Editor: Mathieu O’Neil
Published by Oekonux, June 2011
Sections:
View online: Research: Mass peer activism (HTML articles)
View online: Debate: ANT and power (HTML articles)
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