Editing Peer Production Course

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== Theories & Approaches ==

* 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 ==
=== Culture/Knowledge production & Information sharing ===

* 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 ===

* Hackers and Hacker Communities
* Game-modding
* Piracy and P2P/Filesharing Networks and Communities

=== Social Production (Rivalrous resource sharing) ===

* Distributed computing
* Couchsurfing & carpooling

=== Commercial knowledge production communities ===

* Firm/product centered innovation communities
* Innovation Contests (TopCoder, Innocentive, Threadless etc)
* Broadcast Search

=== Crowdsourcing & CrowdFunding ===

* Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, oDesk?
* Kiva & Prosper & DonorsChoose
* IndieGoGo & Kickstarter

=== Political movement/membership organizations ===

* OFA (Obama for America)
* Daily Kos
* MoveOn
* OccupyTweets!
* Fight for the Future