Peer Production Course

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