Author Archives: Adam Fish
A relevant book and a bevy of articles on peer production emerged recently: Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production by Mirko Tobias Schäfer …and New Media and Society bringing it in the recent edition: The limits of peer production: Some reminders from Max Weber for the network society by Daniel Kreiss, Megan Finn, [...]
Here is an obvious kindred spirit. The founders, G. Ritzer and N. Jurgenson, have written a rather experimental text “Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital “Prosumer.” In it, they posit that a new form of capitalism is emerging based on free digital handouts and collaborative consumption. Not as [...]
A Washington Post article today by Greg Ferenstein, “In a Cutthroat World, Some Web Giants Thrive by Collaborating,” is a light survey of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple and their internal and external policies of sharing from APIs to intrafirm competition/collaboration. Pretty puffy piece but some nicely observed data. Includes a nice analysis of Google’s [...]
Here’s an analogous organization seeking collaborations. Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics The project will explore the intersection of politics, networks and cultural practices. The network will work on an analysis of how the emergence of a ‘network society’ is reshaping the ground upon which we think about politics and culture. The primary objective is [...]
For consideration for collaboration, I introduce UCSB’s Media Industries Project chaired by one of my favorite professors, Jennifer Holt. The Media Industries Project brings together industry practitioners, policy experts, and leading scholars into lively dialogue on the future prospects of modern media. Focusing especially on digital media, globalization, and creative labor, the Project provides independent analysis of key trends and [...]
7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California The premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide. Panel and Papers due April 1, 2011. http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/ The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference in Boulder, Colorado, from September 18 to 21, 2011. Papers due [...]
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