CFP: JOPP #15 Transition
Seeking investigations into societal transition, into the journal’s editorial transition, as well as idiosyncratic understandings of scientific and political transitions. Issue editors: Mathieu O’Neil (University of Canberra), Panayotis Antoniadis (Nethood) /// Peer production and our crises Peer producers are people who create and manage common-pool resources together. It sometimes seems
Issue #14: Infrastructuring the commons today, when STS meets ICT
Editors Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Maurizio Teli, Peter Lyle, Christopher Csíkszentmihályi Summary Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical
JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION: “OPEN” EOI & CFP ISSUE #13
PEER PRODUCTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE The Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) is a volunteer-run peer-reviewed journal which has since 2011 both researched and put into practice the principles of peer production, understood as a mode of commons-based and oriented production in which participation is voluntary and predicated on the self-selection
CfP JoPP Special Issue #12: The Institutionalization of Shared Machine Shops: New Spaces, Networks + Practices.
Editors Kat Braybrooke, Adrian Smith Summary Two years ago, a special issue of the Journal of Peer Production on shared machine shops described them as the “occupied factories of peer production theory”. The authors of that issue compiled a theoretically-grounded and empirically informed analysis of member-owned spaces like hacklabs, hackerspaces and
CfP JoPP special issue #11: CITY – abstracts due 31 January 2017
Editors: Penny Travlou, Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Panayotis Antoniadis Call for papers One of the welfare state’s key jurisdictions was to tend to housing and public space in benevolent ways. However, under the neoliberal dogma, commodification and gentrification threatens both the right to housing and the right to the city while in
Peer production and work
Editors: Mathieu O’Neil (University of Canberra), Stefano Zacchiroli (University Paris Diderot) The rise in the usage and delivery capacity of the Internet in the 1990s has led to the development of massively distributed online projects where self-governing volunteers collaboratively produce public goods. Notable examples include Free and Open Source Software
Announcing En Defensa del Software Libre Nr. 2
Two articles from the Journal of Peer Production have been translated and published in En Defensa del Software Libre Nr. 2, available in hardcopy as well as in epub for ebook readers and in pdf for self-printing. This issue is dedicated to peer production, or how free software’s mode of
Alternative Internets
Editors: Félix Tréguer (ISCC-CNRS), Panayotis Antoniadis (NetHood), Johan Söderberg (Göteborgs Universitet) States are attempting to consolidate their control over the Internet, turning it into an instrument for minute surveillance, whilst a handful of tech-corporations seek to use it as a means to manipulate human behaviour toward their own objectives and
Feminism and (Un)Hacking
Editors: Shaowen Bardzell, Lilly Nguyen, Sophie Toupin There has been a recent growth in interest in feminist approaches to practices like hacking, tinkering, geeking and making. What started off as an interest in furthering representations of women in the technical fields of computer science and engineering, often along the lines
Peer production, disruption and the law
Editors: Steve Collins, Macquarie University and Angela Daly, Swinburne University of Technology The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice with powerful interests. Experience from the “disruptions” of the late 20th century has