Peer Production Course
From WikiDotMako
Theories & Approaches[edit]
- Conceptual understanding of information access, infrastructure, and freedom issues (Lessig, Benkler, Coleman)
- Transaction cost theory of CBPP, social production (coase's penguin, sharing nicely)
- Networks (Barabasi, Salganik, Watts, Burt)
- Theories of the commons & common-pool resources
- Networked Public Sphere (Benkler, Zuckerman, Sunstein, Hindman, P. Howard)
- Orgs/Movements (Coase, Benkler, Bennett & Segerberg, Kreiss, Karpf, Shirky)
- Democracy, Governance, Leadership (Kreiss, Karpf, Howard, O'Mahony, Hindman, Shirky)
- Motivations & social psychology (selective incentives, exchange theory)
- Design of socio-technical systems (HCI, CSCW, Kraut, Riedl, etc./)
- User and open innovation (von Hippel)
Phenomena Units[edit]
Culture/Knowledge production & Information sharing[edit]
- Wikipedia (and other Wikis?)
- Software production Free/Open Source Software
- Remixing (Scratch)
- OpenHardware - Arduino, LilyPad, Drones
- Fandom & fan fiction
- Online forums (Gaia Online)
- Gaming (WoW, Haibo, Second Life, Sims)
- (MOOCs / P2P & Open Education)
- Citizen Science
Transgressive communities & information sharing[edit]
- Hackers and Hacker Communities
- Game-modding
- Piracy and P2P/Filesharing Networks and Communities
Social Production (Rivalrous resource sharing)[edit]
- Distributed computing
- Couchsurfing & carpooling
Commercial knowledge production communities[edit]
- Firm/product centered innovation communities
- Innovation Contests (TopCoder, Innocentive, Threadless etc)
- Broadcast Search
Crowdsourcing & CrowdFunding[edit]
- Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, oDesk?
- Kiva & Prosper & DonorsChoose
- IndieGoGo & Kickstarter
Political movement/membership organizations[edit]
- OFA (Obama for America)
- Daily Kos
- MoveOn
- OccupyTweets!
- Fight for the Future
