This research starts with hackers’ communities, focusing on open processes as the key to volunteer driven cooperation. While theoretically hackers’ communities allow contributions “from each according to their ability”, I argue the inequalities continuously reproduced by capital…
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With the emergence of Free/Libre and Open Source Software as a significant force that is reshaping the software industry, it becomes more important to reassess conventionally held wisdom about software development. Recent literature on the FLOSS development process suggests that…
This dissertation engages the question of, "What can the online encyclopedia Wikipedia teach us about the future of information gathering?" with three case studies that investigate how routine duties of journalism are exercised on current events articles on Wikipedia, which many…