{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-peer-production-isbn-9781119537106","title":"The Handbook of Peer Production","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive reference work with comprehensive analysis and review of peer production\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeer production is no longer the sole domain of small groups of technical or academic elites. The internet has enabled millions of people to collectively produce, revise, and distribute everything from computer operating systems and applications to encyclopedia articles and film and television databases. Today, peer production has branched out to include wireless networks, online currencies, biohacking, and peer-to-peer urbanism, amongst others. \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Peer Production\u003c\/i\u003e outlines central concepts, examines current and emerging areas of application, and analyzes the forms and principles of cooperation that continue to impact multiple areas of production and sociality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing contributions from an international team of experts in the field, this landmark work maps the origins and manifestations of peer production, discusses the factors and conditions that are enabling, advancing, and co-opting peer production, and considers its current impact and potential consequences for the social order. Detailed chapters address the governance, political economy, and cultures of peer production, user motivations, social rules and norms, the role of peer production in social change and activism, and much more. Filling a gap in available literature as the only extensive overview of peer production’s modes of generating informational goods and services, this groundbreaking volume:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers accessible, up-to-date information to both specialists and non-specialists across academia, industry, journalism, and public advocacy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes interviews with leading practitioners discussing the future of peer production Discusses the history, traditions, key debates, and pioneers of peer production\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores technologies for peer production, openness and licensing, peer learning, open design and manufacturing, and free and open-source software\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Peer Production\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, researchers, and professionals working in fields including communication studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and management studies, as well as those interested in the network information economy, the public domain, and new forms of organization and networking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor biographies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter summaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I – Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 01 – The Duality of Peer Production: Infrastructure for the Commons, Free Labor for Firms (Mathieu O�Neil, Sophie Toupin \u0026amp; Christian Pentzold)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II – Concepts: Explaining Peer Production\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 02 – Grammar of Peer Production (Vasilis Kostakis \u0026amp; Michel Bauwens)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 03 – Political Economy of Peer Production (Benjamin Birkinbine)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 04 – Social Norms and Rules of Peer Production (Christian Pentzold)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 05 – Cultures of Peer Production (Michael Stevenson)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 06 (reprint) – Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue (Yochai Benkler \u0026amp; Helen Nissenbaum)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III – Conditions: Enabling Peer Production\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 07 – Prophets and Advocates (George Dafermos)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 08 – Virtue, Efficiency, and the Sharing Economy (Margie Borschke)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 09 – Openness and Licensing (Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 – User Motivations in Peer Production (Sebastian Spaeth \u0026amp; Sven Niederhöfer)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 – Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Dynamic Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve (Rebecca Karp, Amisha Miller \u0026amp; Siobhan O�Mahony)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV – Cases: Realizing Peer Production\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 – Free \u0026amp; Open Source Software (Stéphane Couture)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 – Wikipedia and Wikis (Jutta Haider \u0026amp; Olof Sundin)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 – Hacker Cartography: Participatory Mapmaking and Technological Power (Adam Fish)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 – Peer Learning (Panayotis Antoniadis \u0026amp; Alekos Pantazis)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 – Biohacking (Morgan Meyer)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 – Makers (Yana Boeva \u0026amp; Peter Troxler)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 – Blockchain (Pablo Velasco Gonzáles \u0026amp; Nate Tkacz)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 – Wireless Community Networks (Gwen Shaffer)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20 – Urban Commons (Nicholas Anastasopoulos)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V – Conflicts: Peer Production and the World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21 – Peer Production and Social Change (Mathieu O�Neil \u0026amp; Sébastien Broca)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 22 – Peer Production and Collective Action (Stefania Milan)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 23 – Feminist Peer Production (Sophie Toupin)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 24 – Postcolonial Peer Production (Maitrayee Deka)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 25 – Gaps in Peer Design (Francesca Musiani)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 26 – Makerspaces and Peer Production: Spaces of Possibility, Tension, Post-Automation, or Liberation? (Kat Braybrooke \u0026amp; Adrian Smith)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 27 – Peer Production and State Theory: Envisioning a Cooperative Partner State (Alex Pazaitis \u0026amp; Wolfgang Drechsler)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart VI – Conversions: Advancing Peer Production\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 28 – Making a Case for Peer Production: Interviews with Peter Bloom, Mariam Mecky, Ory Okolloh, Abraham Taherivand \u0026amp; Stefano Zacchiroli\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 29 – What�s Next? Peer Production Studies? (Mathieu O�Neil, Sophie Toupin \u0026amp; Christian Pentzold)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 30 – Be Your Own Peer! Principles and Policies for the Commons (Mathieu O�Neil, Sophie Toupin \u0026amp; Christian Pentzold)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMathieu O'Neil\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Canberra's News \u0026amp; Media Research Centre where he researches the political economy of peer production and conducts network and content analyses of online controversies. He is also Honorary Associate Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University, where he contributed to the creation of the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks. He previously held academic appointments at the Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, the Australian National University and the Université Paris Sorbonne. He has also worked as a magazine editor and exhibition curator in Singapore, and as a researcher for the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He is the founder of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Peer Production\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003eSocial Networks, Journal of Peer Production, Réseaux, Information, Communication \u0026amp; Society, Organization Studies, New Media and Society,\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e International Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Pentzold\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Media and Communication at the Department for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany. Before that, he worked in the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen and the Institute for Media Research at Chemnitz University of Technology. He is broadly interested in the construction and appropriation of digital media and the roles, information and communication technologies play in modern society. His work in communication research and media analysis links to insights coming from cultural sociology, linguistics as well as science and technology studies. In current projects, he looks at the public understanding of big data, the organization and governance of peer production, as well as the interplay of time, data, and media. His work has come out with \u003ci\u003eMedia, Culture \u0026amp; Society, New Media and Society, Communication, Culture and Critique,\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e International Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Toupin\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eFonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture\u003c\/i\u003e (FRQSC) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam where she explores the linkages between feminism, data, and infrastructure. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between technology and anti-colonialism during the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eNew Media and Society, Feminist Media Studies, Canadian Journal of Communication, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Journal of Peer Production,\u003c\/i\u003e among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990252863717,"sku":"NP9781119537106","price":220.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119537106.jpg?v=1761787074","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-handbook-of-peer-production-isbn-9781119537106","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}