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
The Handbook of Peer Production
O’Neil, M., Pentzold, C. & Toupin, S. (2021) The Handbook of Peer Production. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 29 – What’s Next? Peer Production Studies? (Mathieu O’Neil, Sophie Toupin & Christian Pentzold) Chapter extract: This brings us to the political economy ...
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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 ICT Mariacristina Sciannamblo, Maurizio Teli, Peter Lyle, Christopher Csíkszentmihályi [html] [pdf] Peer Reviewed Academic Papers ...
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- 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
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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. ...
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.