An issue many organizations face is how to keep innovating in an environment of economic and skill scarcity. Open source changes that equation in regard to the development process. With open source comes abundance — more than 500,000+ projects are freely available today, and that number’s growing rapidly. Open source and innovation are locked in… Continue reading
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Neural interview: from peer 2 peer to face to face
Neural magazine is an excellent ‘print’ magazine on digital art and culture, whose issue #38 was dedicated to the inter-relation between ‘digital peer to peer’ and ‘physical face to face’ dynamics, and carried, amongst many other interesting articles, interviews with Superflex, Platoniq and Dmytri Kleiner. It’s well worth purchasing a copy here. Here is the… Continue reading
The Philosophy of Peer Learning: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Editors: DANIEL ARAYA, MICHEL BAUWENS & FRANCO IACOMELLA Description Peer production has become an important organizing logic for a network-driven era. Social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia, are facilitating social connectivity on a massive scale. Developments in ICT networks now define and shape information production and potentially transform the organization of… Continue reading
Clay Spinuzzi reviews “Networks and States”
* Book: Networks and States. The Global Politics of Internet Governance. Milton L. Mueller. MIT Press, 2010 Spinuzzi’s site remains one of the best sources for detailed reviews of internet and p2p related books. An excerpt from his review of Milton Mueller’s excellent book on the network form: “He’s interested in the question of global… Continue reading
Debating the role of the state and civil society in P2P Theory
A in-depth contribution by Jean Lievens, who addresses a number of important issues in our p2p approach. The full version of Jean’s contribution is here. You can also join the debate in our Ning forum here. Jean Lievens: “The very idea of changing society has suffered an enormous blow because of what happened after the… Continue reading
Empire and its Discontents: The Tahrir Square tipping point as Revolution 2.0
In part one, Steven Colatrella gives the long view of the importance of the uprising/revolution in Egypt. In part two, one of the leaders of the movement in Egypt, Ghonim stresses how important the peer to peer communication infrastructure was for the success of the movement and how it is a tipping point for a… Continue reading
The anthropology of peer production (2): the Emergence of the Free-Goodness Model of Human Interaction
“Given no “invisible hand” of profit incentivizing individuals to contribute to online communities, nor any central governance coercing or motivating them, why then do people choose to upload, share, blog, help and cooperate in increasing numbers? A theory is needed to explain the socio–technical phenomenon, to explain why less–for–profit systems are flourishing. … The “rational”… Continue reading
Governance issues between community and organization in Wikipedia and Creative Commons
The general question we are addressing is: How do organizations in digital information economy manage the boundaries to related focal communities? * Paper: Managing Boundaries between Organizations and Communities: Comparing Creative Commons and Wikimedia. Paper prepared for the 3rd Free Culture Research Conference, October 8-9, 2010, Berlin. By Leonhard Dobusch and Sigrid Quack. As far… Continue reading
The Gordon Cook Interview (3): from the commons to open and distributed manufacturing
On March 4 2010, Gordon Cook was able to interview me in Bangkok. This became the basis for the August-September special issue of the Cook Report, a newsletter that is distributed to telecommunication leaders. It’s the most in-depth profile of our work to date and the first 17 pages, which feature a detailed comparison of… Continue reading
P2P and the Role of Exclusion II: the case of Wikipedia
A re-post from Golpe de e-Estado One of the crucial characteristics of P2P is equipotency of its participants, in consequence it is not exclusion but non-rivalry or even “anti-rivalry“, with free-riders making positive contributions to production (“outriders”), what is essential (see part I). But exclusion is still present: Wikipedia, one of the mayor successes of… Continue reading
New Journal: Critical Studies in Peer Production
This project is still in project stage, more info here. Provisional call for submissions: “Critical Studies in Peer Production (CSPP) seeks high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners of peer production. We understand peer production as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable… Continue reading
JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science: Commentary
Via: The new issue of Journal of Science Communication also has a commentary section with the following items: Special issue on peer-to-peer and user-led science: invited comments: In this commentary, we collected three essays from authors coming from different perspectives. They analyse the problem of power, participation and cooperation in projects of production of scientific… Continue reading
Some Insights on Peer Governance
Peer projects do not operate in strict hierarchies of command and control, but rather in heterarchies; they operate “in a much looser [environment] which…allows for the existence of multiple teams of participants working simultaneously in a variety of possibly opposing directions” (Bruns, 2008, p. 26). According to Bruns (2008) peer projects’ heterarchies are not simply… Continue reading
Wikipedia and Research Ethics
First, some background: In the chapter of my book Cyberchiefs on governance in the English-language Wikipedia, there is a section, as in all my case studies, which deals with conflict. Within this section there is a sub-section which focuses on the management of disruptive users, particularly people who create fake identities, known in Wikipedia as… Continue reading
P2P and the Role of Exclusion I: Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
Anti-rivalry rather than non-rivalry, outrider rather than free-rider. A brief analysis on how P2P goes beyond the “Tragedy of the Commons”.
Continue readingWikipedia and Conflict
Wikipedia has become a prime example of really existing mass cooperation with low barriers to entry; perhaps the most important example. This is why it is important for researchers to map its operations. I want to focus on situations where governance is most apparent: in situations of conflict, when direct negotiation fails, insults fly and… Continue reading