David Bollier: Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · commons, economy, floss, free culture, media, open source, sharing, web 2.0
“A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and hierarchies of credentialed experts is under siege. A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence, and cheap and easy sharing is ascendant.”
From free and open-source software, Creative Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix music and video mashups, peer production, open science, open education, and open business, the world of digital media has spawned a new “sharing economy” that increasingly competes with entrenched media giants.
Reporting from the heart of this “free culture” movement, journalist and activist David Bollier provides the first comprehensive history of the attempt by a global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, musicians, scientists, businesspeople, innovators, and geeks of all stripes to create a digital republic committed to freedom and innovation. Viral Spiral-the term Bollier coins to describe the almost-magical process by which Internet users can come together to build online commons and tools-brilliantly interweaves the disparate strands of this eclectic movement. The story describes major technological developments and pivotal legal struggles, as well as fascinating profiles of hacker Richard Stallman, copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig, and other colorful figures.
A milestone in reporting on the Internet by one of our leading media critics, Viral Spiral is for anyone seeking to take the full measure of the new digital era.
Publisher New Press, 2009
Creative Commons BY-NC License
ISBN 1595583963, 9781595583963
344 pages
The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · book, copyright, knowledge production, networks, print, publishing, sharing
“The story of Mag.net is the story of a networking effort by several European print magazines dealing with electronic culture. While this effort produced only mixed results and had to struggle hard for its successes, it was throughout characterised by a spirit of cooperation that had many positive effects and fostered lasting friendships among the participants.” (from the Introduction)
Contributions by Alessandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič, Mute, Miren Eraso, Nicolas Malevé, Monica Narula, Awadhendra Sharan and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Christiane Fricke, Krystian Woznicki, Christian Höller, Joost Smiers & Marieke Van Schijndel.
Edited by Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico, Slávo Krekovič
With introduction by Andreas Broeckmann
Publisher: Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
Creative Commons license. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
ISBN 8479075082
122 pages
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