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 #15: Transition
Issue 15: February 2022 Issue editors: Panayotis Antoniadis & Mathieu O’Neil JoPP #15 on TRANSITION features six peer-reviewed articles exploring diverse aspects of transitions in peer production projects. Each article is accompanied by an additional piece or ‘complement’ which addresses the ...
Table of contents
- Editorial notes: Researching transition, transitioning research
- Peer reviewed papers
- Plan C – Makers’ response to COVID-19
- Collective capabilities for resisting far-right extremism online and in the real world
- ‘Meet Your Personal Cobot:’ Framing Participatory Research in Makerspaces as a Trading Zone
- Prototypes as Agents of Transition: The case of DIY Wireless Technology for advancing Community Digital Sovereignty
- Civic Spaces and Collaborative Commons
- Making Consensus Sensible: The Transition of a Democratic Ideal into Wikipedia’s Interface
- JoPP in transition
Issue #14: Infrastructuring the commons today, when STS meets ICT
Issue 14: May 2020 Special Issue 14 Editors: Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Maurizio Teli, Peter Lyle, Christopher Csíkszentmihályi Editorial Notes Infrastructuring the commons today, when STS meets ICTMariacristina Sciannamblo, Maurizio Teli, Peter Lyle, Christopher Csíkszentmihályi [html] [pdf] Peer Reviewed Academic Papers No-One’s ...
Table of contents
- Peer reviewed papers
- No-One’s Earth: An Arendtian Interpretation of the Tragedy of the Commons at the Beginning of 2020
- Tragedies in Translation: Fostering Community Networks in the Global South
- The subjects of/in commoning and the affective dimension of infrastructuring the commons
- Commons infrastructures: Collaborative design of a political tent as cosmogram
- Central urban space as a hybrid common infrastructure
- China’s Air Pollution Meets Public Participation and Citizen Science
- Between precarity and opportunity: an ethnography of ‘flexible skills’ in interaction design
- Editorial Notes
Open Calls
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.