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The Cooperation Workshop group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing empirical research on cooperation. Several, but not all, of the participants are fellows at the Berkman Center.

Some weeks, we have seminar sessions which are public talks with an invited guests and will involve a presentation and a seminar discussion over about 75 minutes. They will be clearly marked below and advertised on a series of email lists.

Most of our sessions are workshop sessions where the basic model is that each week, one participant will distribute work for discussion and feedback from the group. Researchers are welcome to join these workshop sessions but we do ask two things of all the participants:

Each week some piece of writing will be shared with the group. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, or a paper by someone outside of the group (e.g., a classic work) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have read this material in advance.
We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once or twice.

If you want to get an idea of what we do, you can check out our previous sessions:

Fall 2011 Sessions
Spring 2012 Sessions
Fall 2012 Sessions
Spring 2013 sessions below
Spring 2014: Etherpad

Also, you can check out a previous version of this group:

Cooperation Seminar(2009-2012)

Accessing Documents[edit]

Some of the documents below are password protected. The password is in the mailing list archives. If you need access, you can mail mako@mit.edu for the username and password.

If you want to place documents in the password protected folder to share them with others, email them to mako@mit.edu.

Participants[edit]

Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.

Sessions Spring 2013[edit]

For our meetings in April, we will be meeting in WCC 3008 in Wasserstein Hall. We do not yet have a room for May so I've left the time unconfirmed. If this new time slot is working out, we will ensure that the group continues to meet at the same time.

Tuesday April 2, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Feedback for Maura Marx, Rebekah Heacock and Kenny Whitebloom on the Digital Public Library of American project and ideas about how to design/build for engagement.

Tuesday April 9, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Aaron (from remote) and Mako on Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production. A draft and some questions will be circulated to the list soon.

Tuesday April 23, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Session to discuss the research on comparative advantages of peer production by Marco Berlinguer. Marco Berlinguer, italian, is researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and will be visiting Cambridge in April.

Marco – merging different steams in literature (CBPP, management studies, and social economy studies) - is developing a conceptual framework on the conditions of possibility and of success of CBPP in contrast to other modes of production. Assuming a broader understanding of sustainability of peer production, Marco developed cases studies analyzing the monetarian and non-monetarian sustainability of peer production, looking to how particularly the capability to access, engage and put at work non-monetary resources constitute a condition of possibility and a comparative advantage of peer production in contrast to other forms of production. He would share a short text in advance and explain us the research he has done in the area, and would be happy to discuss the research design for a new project.

Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m[edit]

Jérôme - Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m[edit]

Mayo Fuster Morell - Research project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production

Milstein East A in the Wasserstein building 4:15 - 6:00p.m

Tuesday May 14, 2013 (4:15 - 6:00p.m)[edit]

Charlie DeTar -- update on dissertation work and methodological challenges.

Location: Milstein East A, WCC.

Tuesday May 21, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Tuesday May 28, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Dariusz - Liquid Collaboration (using Bauman to study open collaboration)

Tuesday June 4, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Nicolas Della Penna (Nikete) - Cross Pollinating Polarized Political Discourse

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-'''Time:''' Thursdays 16:00-17:30 (Boston Time)
+:'''Email List:''' [[Cooperation Workshop/Mailing list]]
-:'''Email:''' [[Cooperation Workshop/Mailing list]]
-:'''Location:''' Berkman Conference Room / 23 Everett Street / Second Floor / Cambridge
-The '''Cooperation Workshop''' group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing early-stage cooperation research. Several, but not all, of the participants are [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows Berkman Fellows]. Each week, one participant will distribute work for discussion and feedback from the group.
+The '''Cooperation Workshop''' group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing empirical research on cooperation. Several, but not all, of the participants are fellows at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows Berkman Center].
-Other researchers are welcome to join but we do ask two things of any participants:
+Some weeks, we have '''seminar sessions''' which are public talks with an invited guests and will involve a presentation and a seminar discussion over about 75 minutes. They will be clearly marked below and advertised on a series of email lists.
-# Each week some contextual writing will be shared with the around. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, a paper (perhaps by another author) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have done read this material in advance.
+Most of our sessions are '''workshop sessions''' where the basic model is that each week, one participant will distribute work for discussion and feedback from the group.  Researchers are welcome to join these workshop sessions but we do ask two things of all the participants:
-# We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once.
+# Each week some piece of writing will be shared with the group. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, or a paper by someone outside of the group (e.g., a classic work) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have read this material in advance.
+# We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once or twice.
+If you want to get an idea of what we do, you can check out our previous sessions:
+* [[Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2011 Sessions|Fall 2011 Sessions]]
+* [[Cooperation Workshop/Spring 2012 Sessions|Spring 2012 Sessions]]
+* [[Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2012 Sessions|Fall 2012 Sessions]]
+* Spring 2013 sessions below
+* Spring 2014: [http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/cooperation_2014 Etherpad]
+Also, you can check out a previous version of this group:
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/cooperation/seminar Cooperation Seminar](2009-2012)
 == Accessing Documents ==
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 == Participants ==
-* [[user:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]
+* Yochai Benkler
-* Andrés Monroy-Hernández
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mfustermorell Mayo Fuster Morell]
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jhergueux Jérôme Hergueux]
 * [[user:Benjamin Mako Hill|Benjamin Mako Hill]]
-* Brian Keegan
+* [http://brianckeegan.com Brian Keegan]
-* [[user:Claserna|Catalina Laserna]]
+* Justin Reich
-* [[user:Dariusz|Dariusz Jemielniak]]
+* [http://erhardtgraeff.com/ Erhardt Graeff]
-* Dennis Y. Tenen
+* [http://vivatropolis.com/judith Judith Donath]
-* Jennifer Shkabatur
+* Heather Whitney
-* Jérôme Hergueux
+* [http://www.warsystems.hu Bodó Balázs]
-* Justin Reich
+* [http://bit.ly/pmetaxas Panagiotis Takis Metaxas]
-* [[User:Mayo|Mayo Fuster Morell]]
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/dmbenfield Dalida María Benfield]
-* P. Takis Metaxas
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mbecker Matt Becker]
-* Yochai Benkler
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/rdevanesan Ruha Devanesan]
+* [http://tirl.org|Charlie DeTar]
+* [http://www.nikete.com Nikete]
+* [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj SJ]
 Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.
-== Winter/Spring 2012 Schedule ==
+== Sessions Spring 2013 ==
-=== Session: February 2, 2012 ===
-Andres will lead a discussion about a draft paper on: “Narcotweets”: Social Media in Wartime.
-:This week I'd like to get feedback on this 8-page paper (emailed). I submitted it to a conference called ICWSM.  A few things I'd like to discuss:
-:a) What are the small tweaks I can do to make it a stronger
-contribution for a different venue (in case it gets rejected)? I'm
-thinking First Monday as a possible venue, mainly because I want to
-get this out _fast_ as a descriptive introduction to the topic and
-then focus on something more specific. There's lots of data to
-analyze, what are the most useful bits that are missing that would
-make it more compelling. What literature should I be referencing that
-I am not?
-: b) For the next paper on the topic, we'd like to explore some of the
-following questions. Using this case what can we say about...
-:# does social media give power to the people against bad governments?
-:# does transparency and publicity help society be more democratic?
-:# does greater information access help reduce fear?
-:How can these questions be framed in the context of existing lit? What
-are good ways of operationalizing them?
-=== Session: February 9, 2012 ===
-=== Session: February 16, 2012 ===
-=== Session: February 23, 2012 ===
-'''First half a session:'''
-'''Wikipedia and emotions'''
-Readings (passport protected):
-+ Paper: Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia AUTHORS: David Laniado, Carlos Castillo, Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Mayo Fuster-Morell
-+ Feedback from reviewers from WWW2012.
-Paper to be submitted to Wikisym 2012.
-=== Session: March 1, 2012 ===
-=== Session: March 8, 2012 ===
-Mayo: Conceptualization and operationalization of governance models, scale of participation and complexity of collaboration: Lessons learned and further development.
-=== Session: March 15, 2012 ===
-Spring break (University Holiday)
-=== Session: March 22, 2012 ===
-=== Session: March 29, 2012 ===
-=== Session: April 5, 2012 ===
-=== Session: April 12, 2012 ===
+For our meetings in April, we will be meeting in '''WCC 3008 in Wasserstein Hall'''. We do not yet have a room for May so I've left the time unconfirmed. If this new time slot is working out, we will ensure that the group continues to meet at the same time.
-=== Session: April 19, 2012 ===
+=== Tuesday April 2, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
-=== Session: April 26, 2012 ===
+Feedback for Maura Marx, Rebekah Heacock and Kenny Whitebloom on the '''Digital Public Library of American''' project and ideas about how to design/build for engagement.
-Research design: How to and does make sense to research the dimension/extension of common-based peer production on the web?. Mayo Fuster Morell
+=== Tuesday April 9, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
+=== Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
-=== Session: May 3, 2012 ===
+Aaron (from remote) and [[Mako]] on '''Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production'''. A draft and some questions will be circulated to the list soon.
-=== Session: May 10, 2012 ===
+=== Tuesday April 23, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
-== Previous Sessions ==
+Session to discuss the research on '''comparative advantages of peer production by Marco Berlinguer'''. Marco Berlinguer, italian, is researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and will be visiting Cambridge in April.
-* [[Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2011 Sessions]]
+Marco – merging different steams in literature (CBPP, management studies, and social economy studies) - is developing a conceptual framework on the conditions of possibility and of success of CBPP in contrast to other modes of production. Assuming a broader understanding of sustainability of peer production, Marco developed cases studies analyzing the monetarian and non-monetarian sustainability of peer production, looking to how particularly the capability to access, engage and put at work non-monetary resources constitute a condition of possibility and a comparative advantage of peer production in contrast to other forms of production. He would share a short text in advance and explain us the research he has done in the area, and would be happy to discuss the research design for a new project.
-== Proposed Sessions ==
+=== Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===
+Jérôme - ''Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia''
-* Mako: Almost Wikipedia paper on attempts at mobilization on online collaborative encyclopedia projects to discuss paper before I send it off. (Sometime in November/December)
+=== Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===
-* Yochai/Mako/Aaron: Barnstar paper.
+Mayo Fuster Morell - Research project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production
-* Andreea/Dariusz: Let's agree to disagree: why conflict results in better articles on Wikipedia (December/January).
+Milstein East A in the Wasserstein building
+:15 - 6:00p.m
-* Group transversal session (initially proposed by Mayo, but aiming to be collectively conceptualize):
+=== Tuesday May 14, 2013 (4:15 - 6:00p.m) ===
-First part - "Rethinking the phenomenon/field analysis":
-i) Rethinking the (pros and contras) of the diverse concepts we use and are present in the literature to refer to the phenomenon of study (common-based peer production/open creation communities/open collaborative communities/online creation communities/peer production etc.)?
-ii) Rethinking the "field: Is there a "field" of research on CBPP? Which would be the stage of it? How the analyses and the research stage has evolved over time and which seems to be its potential developments?
-Second part - "Rethinking the group":
+Charlie DeTar -- update on dissertation work and methodological challenges.
-iii) Going though the shared or/and transversal reflections that had emerged in previous sessions: Do we share a common conception of the phenomenon (even if approaching it from diverse perspectives and methodological tools)?
-iv) Rethinking opportunities and possible further developments: Richness of the group and potentialities of the group? Do we (as a group or some of us) share goals for future developments?
-Suggested for February 16 or 23.
+Location: Milstein East A, WCC.
-* Howard Rheingold readings on social cooperation
+=== Tuesday May 21, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
+=== Tuesday May 28, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
+[[User:Dariusz|Dariusz]] - Liquid Collaboration (using Bauman to study open collaboration)
-== Proposed papers and Proceedings to read==
+=== Tuesday June 4, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
-* [http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/on-the-economics-and-biology-of-trust.pdf "On the economics and biology of Trust" - E. Fehr]
+[[User:Nikete| Nicolas Della Penna (Nikete)]] - Cross Pollinating Polarized Political Discourse