Cooperation Workshop

Time: Tuesdays, 4:15pm

Email List: Cooperation Workshop/Mailing list

Location: Berkman Conference Room at Harvard Law School (23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor)

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:

1. 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.
2. 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
• Cooperation Workshop/Spring 2012 Sessions
• Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2012 Sessions

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

• Cooperation Seminar(2009-2012)

Accessing Documents

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

• Yochai Benkler
• Mayo Fuster Morell
• Jérôme Hergueux
• Benjamin Mako Hill
• Brian Keegan
• Justin Reich
• Erhardt Graeff
• Judith Donath
• Heather Whitney
• Bodó Balázs
• Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
• Dalida María Benfield
• Matt Becker
• Ruha Devanesan

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

Sessions Spring 2013

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

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 16, 2013 10:30-11:30

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 30, 2013 10:30-11:30

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

Tuesday May 7, 2013 (Time TBD)

Mayo - Governance of digital commons

Tuesday May 28, 2013 (Time TBD)

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