The Handbook Of Peer Production

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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. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - series......Page 3 Title - complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 9 List of Tables......Page 11 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Preface......Page 20 Chapter Summaries......Page 22 Part I - Introduction......Page 32 1. The Duality of Peer Production......Page 33 Part II - Concepts: Explaining Peer Production......Page 48 2. Grammar of Peer Production......Page 49 3. Political Economy of Peer Production......Page 61 4. Social Norms and Rules in Peer Production......Page 72 5. Cultures of Peer Production......Page 84 6. Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue (reprint)......Page 98 Part III - Conditions: Enabling Peer Production......Page 115 7. Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production......Page 116 8. Virtue, Efficiency, and the Sharing Economy......Page 128 9. Open Licensing Peer Production......Page 136 10. User Motivations in Peer Production......Page 150 11. Governing for Growth in Scope......Page 164 Part IV - Cases: Realizing Peer Production......Page 180 12. Free and Open Source Software......Page 181 13. Wikipedia and Wikis......Page 195 14. Participatory Cartography......Page 211 15. P2P Learning`......Page 223 16. Biohacking......Page 237 17. Makers......Page 251 18. Blockchain, or, Peer Production Without Guarantees......Page 264 19. Community Wireless Networks......Page 280 20. Commoning the Urban......Page 294 Part V - Conflicts: Peer Production and the World......Page 308 21. Peer Production and Social Change......Page 309 22. Peer Production and Collective Action......Page 323 23. Feminist Peer Production......Page 335 24. Postcolonial Peer Production......Page 346 25. Gaps in Peer Design......Page 358 26. Makerspaces and Peer Production......Page 371 27. Peer Production and State Theory......Page 383 Part VI - Coversions: Advancing Peer Production......Page 395 28. Making a Case for Peer Production......Page 396 29. What's Next ?......Page 411 30. Be your Own Peer ! Principles and Policies for the Commons......Page 420 Index......Page 432