This book explores software\u27s pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media. Creating conditions for the ongoing development and use of software, including the Internet as a communications infrastructure, is one of the most compelling issues of our time. Free software is based upon open source code, developed in peer communities as well as corporate settings, challenging the dominance of proprietary software firms and promoting the digital commons. Drawing upon key cases and interviews with free software proponents based in Europe, Brazil and the U.S., the book explores pathways toward creating the digital commons and examines contemporary political struggles over free software, privacy an...
This ethnography explores the inner workings of LibreOffice, a free and open source software project...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...
The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a commu...
The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a commu...
In the 1970s, software emerged as a distinct industry as it became unbundled from computer hardware....
Understanding the social dynamics shaping the internet is vital as media power takes on new dimensio...
Understanding the social dynamics shaping the internet is vital as media power takes on new dimensio...
RefereedContents: Part I, THE INTERNET: 1. Geeks and Recursive Publics; 2. Protestant Reformers, Pol...
The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around on...
The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around on...
Recently the University of Göteborg held an online course in the theory and philosophy of free softw...
The free software and open-source software movements have proven prescient precursors to today’s mul...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of locking information and when neo-liberal...
The global social justice movement attempts to build a more equitable, democratic, and environmental...
This ethnography explores the inner workings of LibreOffice, a free and open source software project...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...
The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a commu...
The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a commu...
In the 1970s, software emerged as a distinct industry as it became unbundled from computer hardware....
Understanding the social dynamics shaping the internet is vital as media power takes on new dimensio...
Understanding the social dynamics shaping the internet is vital as media power takes on new dimensio...
RefereedContents: Part I, THE INTERNET: 1. Geeks and Recursive Publics; 2. Protestant Reformers, Pol...
The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around on...
The digital liberties movement is an emerging social movement that draws together activism around on...
Recently the University of Göteborg held an online course in the theory and philosophy of free softw...
The free software and open-source software movements have proven prescient precursors to today’s mul...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of locking information and when neo-liberal...
The global social justice movement attempts to build a more equitable, democratic, and environmental...
This ethnography explores the inner workings of LibreOffice, a free and open source software project...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...
At a time when private companies are inventing methods of “locking information” and when neo-liberal...