The Handbook of Peer Production

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-119-53710-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1059 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neil, Mathieu

Pentzold, Christian

Toupin, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mathieu O'Neil is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Canberra's News & Media Research Centre where he researches the political economy of peer production and conducts network and content analyses of online controversies. He is also Honorary Associate Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University, where he contributed to the creation of the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks. He previously held academic appointments at the Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, the Australian National University and the Université Paris Sorbonne. He has also worked as a magazine editor and exhibition curator in Singapore, and as a researcher for the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He is the founder of the Journal of Peer Production. His work has been published in Social Networks, Journal of Peer Production, Réseaux, Information, Communication & Society, Organization Studies, New Media and Society, and the International Journal of Communication, among others.

Christian Pentzold is Professor of Media and Communication at the Department for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany. Before that, he worked in the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen and the Institute for Media Research at Chemnitz University of Technology. He is broadly interested in the construction and appropriation of digital media and the roles, information and communication technologies play in modern society. His work in communication research and media analysis links to insights coming from cultural sociology, linguistics as well as science and technology studies. In current projects, he looks at the public understanding of big data, the organization and governance of peer production, as well as the interplay of time, data, and media. His work has come out with Media, Culture & Society, New Media and Society, Communication, Culture and Critique, and the International Journal of Communication.

Sophie Toupin is a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam where she explores the linkages between feminism, data, and infrastructure. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between technology and anti-colonialism during the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Her work has been published in New Media and Society, Feminist Media Studies, Canadian Journal of Communication, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, and Journal of Peer Production, among others.