Mathieu O’Neil: Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · autonomy, blogging, blogosphere, floss, free software, internet, politics, usenet, wikipedia
People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O’Neil focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. He examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics.
What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organisation? Using case studies of online projects or ‘tribes’ such as the radical Primitivism archive, the Daily Kos political weblog, the Debian free software project, and Wikipedia, O’Neil shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and he analyses the tensions generated by this distribution of authority.
Publisher Pluto Press, 2009
ISBN 0745327974, 9780745327976
242 pages
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Comment (0)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)
View online: Reports (HTML articles)
Mark Nunes (ed.): Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · botnet, error, facebook, glitch, hacktivism, machinima, media culture, new media, noise, tactical media, wikipedia, youtube
Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, “Hack,” contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, “Game,” they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, “Jam,” considers the role of error as both an inherent “counterstrategy” and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society. By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise “slip through” in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice.
Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010
ISBN 144112120X, 9781441121202
288 pages
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