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The definitive reference work with comprehensive analysis and review of peer production
Peer production is no longer the sole domain of small groups of technical or academic elites. The internet has enabled millions of people to collectively produce, revise, and distribute everything from computer operating systems and applications to encyclopedia articles and film and television databases. Today, peer production has branched out to include wireless networks, online currencies, biohacking, and peer-to-peer urbanism, amongst others. The Handbook of Peer Production outlines central concepts, examines current and emerging areas of application, and analyzes the forms and principles of cooperation that continue to impact multiple areas of production and sociality.
Featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, this landmark work maps the origins and manifestations of peer production, discusses the factors and conditions that are enabling, advancing, and co-opting peer production, and considers its current impact and potential consequences for the social order. Detailed chapters address the governance, political economy, and cultures of peer production, user motivations, social rules and norms, the role of peer production in social change and activism, and much more. Filling a gap in available literature as the only extensive overview of peer production's modes of generating informational goods and services, this groundbreaking volume:
Offers accessible, up-to-date information to both specialists and non-specialists across academia, industry, journalism, and public advocacy
Includes interviews with leading practitioners discussing the future of peer production Discusses the history, traditions, key debates, and pioneers of peer production
Explores technologies for peer production, openness and licensing, peer learning, open design and manufacturing, and free and open-source software
The Handbook of Peer Production is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, researchers, and professionals working in fields including communication studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and management studies, as well as those interested in the network information economy, the public domain, and new forms of organization and networking.
Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface xxi
Chapter Summaries xxiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 The Duality of Peer Production: Infrastructure for the Digital Commons, Free Labor for Free]Riding Firms 3
Mathieu O'Neil, Sophie Toupin, and Christian Pentzold
Part II Concepts: Explaining Peer Production 19
2 Grammar of Peer Production 21
Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens
3 Political Economy of Peer Production 33
Benjamin J. Birkinbine
4 Social Norms and Rules in Peer Production 44
Christian Pentzold
5 Cultures of Peer Production 56
Michael Stevenson
6 Commons]Based Peer Production and Virtue (reprint) 70
Yochai Benkler and Helen Nissenbaum
Part III Conditions: Enabling Peer Production 87
7 Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production 89
George Dafermos
8 Virtue, Efficiency, and the Sharing Economy 101
Margie Borschke
9 Open Licensing Peer Production 109
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
10 User Motivations in Peer Production 123
Sebastian Spaeth and Sven Niederhöfer
11 Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve 137
Rebecca Karp, Amisha Miller, and Siobhán O'Mahony
Part IV Cases: Realizing Peer Production 153
12 Free and Open Source Software 155
Stéphane Couture
13 Wikipedia and Wikis 169
Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin
14 Participatory Cartography: Drones, Countermapping, and Technological Power 185
Adam Fish
15 P2P Learning 197
Panayotis Antoniadis and Alekos Pantazis
16 Biohacking 211
Morgan Meyer
17 Makers 225
Yana Boeva and Peter Troxler
18 Blockchain, or, Peer Production Without Guarantees 238
Pablo Velasco González and Nathaniel Tkacz
19 Community Wireless Networks 254
Gwen Shaffer
20 Commoning the Urban 268
Nicholas Anastasopoulos
Part V Conflicts: Peer Production and the World 283
21 Peer Production and Social Change 285
Mathieu O'Neil and Sébastien Broca
22 Peer Production and Collective Action 299
Stefania Milan
23 Feminist Peer Production 311
Sophie Toupin
24 Postcolonial Peer Production 322
Maitrayee Deka
25 Gaps in Peer Design 334
Francesca Musiani
26 Makerspaces and Peer Production: Spaces of Possibility, Tension, Post]Automation, or Liberation? 347
Kat Braybrooke and Adrian Smith
27 Peer Production and State Theory: Envisioning a Cooperative Partner State 359
Alex Pazaitis and Wolfgang Drechsler
Part VI Conversions: Advancing Peer Production 371
28 Making a Case for Peer Production: Interviews with Peter Bloom, Mariam
Mecky, Ory Okolloh, Abraham Taherivand, and Stefano Zacchiroli 373
29 What's Next? Peer Production Studies? 388
Mathieu O'Neil, Sophie Toupin, and Christian Pentzold
30 Be Your Own Peer! Principles and Policies for the Commons 397
Mathieu O'Neil, Sophie Toupin, and Christian Pentzold
Index 409
