Welcome to the Journal of Peer Production
The Journal of Peer Production seeks high-quality contributions from researchers and practitioners of peer production. We understand peer production as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection of tasks. Notable examples are the collaborative development of Free Software projects and of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia.
Latest Issue
Issue #2: Bio/Hardware Hacking
Editorial Notes An introduction to the first collection of academic studies covering the emergence of hacker practices in the fields of diy-bio and open hardware development. by Alessandro Delfanti and Johan Söderberg html Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science ...
Table of contents
- Editorial Notes
- Peer reviewed papers
- DIYbiologists as ‘makers’ of personal biologies: how MAKE Magazine and Maker Faires contribute in constituting biology as a personal technology
- Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: connecting science and community with open data, kits and protocols
- Hacklabs and hackerspaces – tracing two genealogies
- How to make a “Hackintosh”. A journey into the “consumerization” of hacking practices and culture
- Invited Comments
Issue #1: Productive Negation
The journal intends to position itself between the grassroots initiatives and discussions taking place on the Internet, driven by practitioners and activists, and the debates taking place in academia. We are thus obliged to say something about the match, and ...
Table of contents
- Editorial notes
- Peer reviewed papers
- Authority in peer production: The emergence of governance in the FreeBSD project
- Why free software is not the antonym of commercial software: Two case studies from corporate and volunteer based projects
- Caring about the plumbing: On the importance of architectures in social studies of (peer-to-peer) technology
- Invited comments
- Debate: Peer production and societal transformation
Open Calls
Deadline
28 Jan
28 Jan
Value and Currency in Peer Production
Edited by: Nathaniel Tkacz, Nicolás Mendoza and Francesca Musiani. Peer production has often been described as a ‘third mode of ...
Deadline
31 Jul
31 Jul
The Critical Power of Free Software: from Intellectual Property to Epistemologies?
Edited by: Maurizio Teli and Vincenzo D’Andrea From the perspective of social organization, Free Software can be conceived as a ...
Research (RS) papers focus on key facets of peer production, and report substantial findings. They have been peer reviewed.
Debate (DB) papers confront ideas and perspectives, so that both parties fully recognise, understand and question each other\'s position.
#0: Mass Peer Activism - Debate: ANT and power
Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is most closely associated to the writings of Bruno Latour and Michel Callon. The following papers emerged out of discussions at the Virtec conference at the University of Hull in March 2010. Johan Söderberg elucidates the philosophical ...
Reports (RP) offer accounts of peer production events and conferences, interviews with participants and reviews.